Kathmandu, 19 September: The Federal Parliament is on debate on whether to wait seven years or provide immediately naturalized citizenship to foreign daughter-in-laws. NC and Rastriya Janata Party are demanding to continue the existing citizenship law introduced in 2063 BS, under which, one foreign daughter-in-law can get citizenship immediately. Ruling Nepal Communist Party has demanded to amend the law with the provision of spending seven years to get such a citizenship.
The No 2 Province is the province in which all the eight districts are bordered with India.
There is the trend of cross-border marriage. Of late, the trend of marrying Indian girls by Nepali boys has increased. According to report, every year, above 5000 Indian girls come in the Province no 2 as bride, however, there is very nominal number of girls going to India as bride, according to the Kantipur daily report.
According to the District Administration Office in Dhanusha, the number of daughter-in-laws receiving naturalized citizenship has increased by three times in the last five years.
People’s News Monitoring Service
