Question: Name the Pakistan-born singer and actress who recently got an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card that will offer her multiple entries, multi-purpose life-long visa to visit India?
(a) Salma Khan
(b) Salma Agha
(c) Jiya Khan
(d) Salman Qureshi
Ans.(b)
Related facts:
- On 30 May 2016 Pakistan-born Bollywood singer and actress Salma Agha got an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card that will offer her multiple entries, multi-purpose life-long visa to visit India and exemption from reporting to police.
- In her application Agha is said to have referred to her Indian roots in her maternal grandfather Jugal Kishore Mehra.
- Mehra was a noted actor and his wife and Salma’s grandmother, Anwari Begum, was a star singer in the 1930s and 1940s.
- It should be known that any person who is a child or a grand-child of citizen of another country, but was a citizen of India at the time of, or at any time after, the commencement of the Constitution (29 Jan 1950) or citizen of another country, but was eligible to become a citizen of India at the time of the commencement of the Constitution is eligible to get Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card.
- Her first film was the “Nikaah” for which she won the Filmfare Best Female Playback award in 1982 for her rendition ‘Dil ke armaan aansuon me beh gaye’ in ‘Nikaah’ from three nominations and was also nominated in the Best Actress category.
- It may be recalled that the Government of India in January 2016 granted citizenship of India to the Pakistan-born singer Adnan Sami.
Reference:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/pakistanborn-singer-salma-agha-gets-oci-card/article8668697.ece
http://www.mea.gov.in/overseas-citizenship-of-india-scheme.htm#
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pakistani-singer-salma-agha-to-get-overseas-citizen-of-india-card-1413679http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Salma-Agha-to-get-Overseas-Citizen-of-India-card/articleshow/52507089.cms