While opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) grows across the country, there are also growing concerns among people over arranging documents. Be it those who lost their papers or those who have never had birth certificates made, all are scared of not being able to prove their citizenship and many are rushing to get their documents in order.

Watching news bulletins on various TV channels was enough to make 55-year-old Kamathipura resident Kausar Begam rush to get her husband's documents in order. All her efforts, however, have failed since she doesn't know her husband's birth date. "My husband was born in Dongri in the early 1960s. My mother-in-law died while giving birth to him and no one in the family knows his birth date. We hear about these detention camps and we don't want to take any chances. But the BMC won't issue a birth certificate without the month and date of birth," she said.