Lucknow: With the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh has sent the first list of non-Muslim refugees living in 19 districts of the state to the Union Home Ministry. In this way, Uttar Pradesh has also become the first province in the country to prepare a list of refugees and send it to the Union Home Ministry.

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The government has so far made a list of 40 thousand non-Muslim refugees from 19 districts of the state. The list of refugees is yet to come from many districts of the state. After getting the list from all the districts, the government gets to know about the total number of refugees living in the state. The Yogi government has made nearly 40 thousand people from 19 districts of the state including Agra, Rae Bareli, Saharanpur, Gorakhpur, Aligarh, Rampur, Muzaffarnagar, Hapur, Mathura, Kanpur, Pratapgarh, Varanasi, Amethi, Jhansi, Bahraich, Lakhimpur Kheri, Lucknow, Meerut, and Pilibhit. List of non-Muslim refugees is prepared.

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During the survey, Pilibhit district has found the highest number of refugees. After the Citizenship Amendment Act came into force, the Pilibhit district administration had sent the list to the state Home Department and the Chief Minister's Office to get Indian citizenship to these refugees. Now the Ministry of Home Affairs will work on this list.

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