Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin recently opened new housing and better amenities for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tiruvannamalai. Following this, the refugee community has now called for a special policy to protect their rights. N. Saravanan, a 45-year-old refugee from Minnur village, says the policy should focus on revising the electoral roll, ensure cooperation between the Centre and State, and bring a humane legal framework considering past Indo-Sri Lanka agreements. Mr. Saravanan highlights a critical issue with children born to refugee parents married to Indian citizens. Children born on or after December 4, 2004, to these couples are often wrongly labelled illegal migrants if one parent is not recognised legally. For example, a person born in the Mandapam refugee camp in 1986 is an Indian citizen by birth. But if they marry another refugee and have a child after 2004, that child can be classed as an illegal migrant. This happens due to lack of awareness and legal guidance, not intentional law-breaking. More than 50 passport applications from this community, backed by court rulings, are still stuck because of negative police verification. The total number of affected people is between 3,000 and 8,000, including Indian-born citizens, Sri Lankan Tamils married to Indians, and their children. All adult members of this group are first-time voters with no prior electoral records. Without a clear policy to define their legal and political rights, these refugees remain excluded from voting and full citizenship. Mr. Saravanan warns that relying on legal cases alone will only pass the problem onto the next generations. He calls the citizenship issue a "permanent and generational injustice" needing urgent special intervention.