• The birth registration system in India should be made more efficient, uniform and non-discriminatory to prevent and reduce statelessness among children. • India must ensure the speedy, comprehensive, and efficient issuance of identity certificates to all stateless persons, identifying them as such. These should enable their stable residence and grant them employment rights in the private sector. • India must provide effective remedies for those seeking to resolve their documentation status. 3. India must affirm the citizenship of all the people facing arbitrary deprivation of citizenship India must affirm the citizenship of all the precarious citizens in Assam who have ended up in this vulnerable position as a result of arbitrary citizenship deprivation exercises. These exercises – NRC and FTs – must be immediately halted. Precarious citizens are on the brink of statelessness since they are facing the threat of arbitrary deprivation of nationality, which violates Indian and international law. Their right to nationality and India’s obligation to eradicate statelessness make it imperative for the state to affirm their citizenship. This affirmation must be a nondiscretionary, non-bureaucratic process. Any application process would risk discrimination, abuse and exclusion. In other words, it shall be an automatic affirmation of the citizenship these persons rightly have. chapter i • status 95 SECTION III.