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In India, Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest occupies the largest area. The tropical monsoon deciduous forests are found in areas receiving annual rainfall of 100 to 200 cms in India, with a distinct dry and rainy seasons and a small range of temperature. They occur on the wetter western side of the Deccan Plateau, the north-eastern part of the Deccan Plateau and the lower slopes of the Himalayas, on the Siwalik Hills from Jammu in the west to West Bengal in the east.

They cover parts of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkand, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

The Citizenship Act, 1955, prescribes three ways of losing citizenship whether acquired under the Act or prior to it under the Constitution, viz. renunciation, termination and deprivation:

1. By Renunciation: Any citizen of India of full age and capacity can make adeclaration renouncing his Indian citizenship.

2. By Termination: When an Indian citizen voluntarily (consciously, knowingly and without duress, undue influence or compulsion) acquires the citizenship of another country.

3. By Deprivation:It is a compulsory termination of Indian citizenship by the Central government, if:

●the citizen has obtained the citizenship by fraud:●the citizen has shown disloyalty to the Constitution of India:

●the citizen has unlawfully traded or communicated with the enemy during a war;

●the citizen has, within five years after registration or naturalisation, been imprisoned in any country for two years; and

●the citizen has been ordinarily resident out of India for seven years continuously