8 Citizens (NRC) process. The present report titled Securing Citizenship: India’s legal obligations towards precarious citizens and stateless persons, however, goes beyond and considers the existential and legal condition of both precarious citizens and stateless persons in India. It is produced by students of Jindal Global Law School, India in collaboration with students of University Catholique de Lille, France. The report undertakes rigorous legal analysis of the subject without entering the domain of politics. It examines in detail the rights available to precarious citizens and stateless persons under the Constitution of India and international conventions to which India is a party. More specifically, the report looks at the evolving national and international jurisprudence of Indian courts, the courts of other nations, and international tribunals in the light of India’s international legal obligations. The report makes some crucial recommendations that include urging India to become a party to the two conventions on statelessness. It also calls for the adoption of an explicit policy on the question of statelessness addressing key questions such as how the problem of statelessness is to be addressed, what are the measures, if any, already in place, and the policy on granting nationality to children born on the territory of India. In this regard, the report underlines the need for identifying an alternative policy to detention in the case of both precarious citizens and stateless persons. In fact the report goes on to explore human rights compliant alternatives. It also stresses the need for the government to grant as an interim measure formal recognition to stateless persons and issuing them identity certificates. It deserves mention here that there are ongoing efforts in many parts of the world to address the problem of statelessness. For instance, at least six States have amended their laws to grant nationality to children born in their territory who would otherwise be stateless – Armenia, Cuba, Estonia, Iceland, SECURING CITIZENSHIP