After Nagaland, the Manipur government has followed the suit and released a memorandum for increased vigilance against “influx of illegal migrants”.
While in the Government of Nagaland, A Order issued on MondayThe Assam government cited the possibility of entering the state by the displaced people from the ongoing eviction drive, the memorandum of the Manipur Home Department cites “the status of upheaval in neighboring countries”.
The memorandum directs police deputy commissioners and superintendents of all districts to ensure vigilance on international, inter-state and inter-district borders “to prevent anyone from crossing the state borders illegally.” Manipur shares an international border with Myanmar and has an internal line permit regime, under which no Indian citizen, who belongs to the state, needs to purchase an official travel document, called an internal line permit (ILP), which is issued or issued to live or live by the state government.
It also directs that the district level work forces “to investigate illegal migrants” are operated in “earliest”, including an ASP of the district, an officer of the district administration, a paramilitary representative and biometric staff.
The memorandum explains the steps to be taken in the event that any such “illegal movement” has been detected: recording biographies and biometric details of individuals; Keeping them in safe designated places “without allowing them to be mixed without being mixed or obtained naturally with local population”; And exiled after the fixed process.
The question of alleged large-scale illegal immigration from Myanmar in Manipur is one of the most contesting issues in the state, especially between MIITEI and Kuk-ZO communities that are in conflict with each other. The stakeholders of the Meitei community allege that the illegal immigration of Chin from Myanmar, which is the similar ethnicity of cookie-zos, is an important reason for instability in the region, a stance is also expressed by the Union Home Minister.
Immigration (T) Indian Express
