 bill no xxxii  of  2014 the citizenship (amendment) bill, 2014 a billfurther to amend the citizenship act, 1955be  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-fifth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the citizenship (amendment) act 2014short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force on such date, as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appointamendment of section 957 of 19552 in section 9 of the citizenship act, 1955 in sub-section (1) after the first proviso thefollowing proviso shall be inserted, namely:—''provided further that no citizen of india, shall be deemed to have lost his citizenship merely on grounds of his or her availing the facility conferred by the order enacted by portuguese government, of registering their births in portugal, to the indians citizens, residing in the territory of erstwhile union territory of goa, daman and diu and the union territory of dadra and nagar haveli, then ruled by the government of portugal, unless such indian citizens voluntarily apply for the citizenship of that country with specific intension of renouncing the citizenship of india statement of objects and reasonsthousands of goans born in ''estado da india'', ie goa, daman  & diu, prior to19121961, and in dadra & nagar haveli, prior to 21081954 and their births registered in the civil registration offices of these territories before the above mentioned dates have been given a facility by the portuguese government by issuing an order in 2006, to register their birth in portugalthere is an urgent need that thousands of other indian citizens who were residing in the erstwhile union territory of goa, daman and diu and dadra and nagar haveli who got their births registered in portugal, in the last seven to eight years in the bonafide belief that such a registration will help them to go to europe freely, without any hassles, and whereas, some others, believed that the facility may help them easy access  to the foreign universities there was, apparently, no intention, of the most of the applicants that, in the process, they would lose the indian citizenshiprecently, a member of goa by assembly, who had registered his birth in portugal availing the above said facility has been declared, by an order issued by the central govt under the citizenship act, 1955, as having caused his citizenship in indiathe issue has taken a complicated turn as these thousands of indian citizens are likely to be considered as non-citizens and there is a danger of ceasing indian citizenship if the provisions of indian citizenship are not interpreted by taking into this backgroundhence, this billshantaram naikrajya  sabha—————a billfurther to amend the citizenship act, 1955—————(shri shantaram naik, mp)gmgipmrnd—3788rs(s3)—18-12-2014