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Nagaland and the ILP syndrome
Morung Express | Moa Jamir | Dimapur | October 6
In its 141st year of operation, there seems to be a common consensus that the Inner Line Permit (ILP), designed to give special protection to the indigenous identity, has not been effective enough to counter the influx of migrants to Nagaland.
Even the Nagaland Chief Minister has admitted that it has neither tackled “influx of migrants” nor “check[ed] illegal migration”. In 2009, in an Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses study, M Amarjeet Singh observed that while there has been steady flow of migration to Nagaland since the early 1970s, it picked up exponentially since 1980s and a perception of “threat to tribal identity” has been created among some section of the society.
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