Centre turns down ILP demand for Manipur
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 04 2012:
Even as the Joint Committee for the Introduction of Inner Line Permit System in Manipur has set a deadline of September 18 for the State Government to place the Cabinet decision as well as the resolution of the State Assembly to extend the Inner Line Permit System before the Centre, the Union Home Ministry has turned down the proposal.
Giving a written reply to a question raised by Inner Manipur Parliamentary Constituency MP Dr T Meinya, Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran informed the Lok Sabha today that the Inner Line Permit System under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 is applicable only to the three States of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland and added that this canot be extended to the "State of Manipur as per extant regulation" .
Raising the question, Dr T Meinya informed the House that the Manipur Legislative Assembly passed a resolution during the second session of the 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly in July to "extend and adopt the Bengal Frontier Regulation, 1873 with necessary changes in the point of details to the State of Manipur and to urge the Government of India to comply the same" .
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The Government of Manipur had earlier informed the Union Home Ministry about the resolution passed by the Cabinet as well as the State Assembly.
Expressing deep concern over the large influx of outsiders to the State of Manipur over the last few decades, the Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System had been demanding the implementation of the said Act in the State.
Following a series of protests and demands, the State Cabinet had decided to adopt a resolution to this effect in the Assembly and accordingly such a decision was adopted by the Assembly during the recent Monsoon session.
In the last few days, a number of illegal migrants, from Bangladesh and Myanmar were rounded up by the State police while a number of migrants not possessing valid documents were pushed back at Jiribam.
The recent crackdown on illegal migrants came in the wake of the series of clash between indigenous Bodos and Bangladeshi migrants in Assam.