JCILPS opens permanent check points at Sekmai, Keithelmanbi
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 02 2019: As part of its intensified movement against illegal immigrants in the State, Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) today launched a fresh drive to check influx of illegal immigrants into the State by opening one permanent check point each at Awang Sekmai Nongthombam Leikai and Keithelmanbi with the help of respective local bodies, clubs and womenfolk.

At least four non-locals who came to the State without valid documents in different public transporters were detained at Awang Sekmai Nongthombam Leikai check point today.

A team of JCILPS led by its convener YK Dhiren along with some media persons visited the Awang Sekmai Nongthombam Leikai check point today.

JCILPS opens permanent check points at Sekmai, Keithelmanbi

Speaking to media persons on the sideline of the drive, the JCILPS convener conveyed that the opening of check points and verifying non-locals who come to the State without valid documents is aimed at checking influx of illegal immigrants into the State.

Further reminding that JCILPS had earlier announced that a fresh drive would be launched today, he said that strict vigil would be mounted on inter-State and inter-district buses as well as other vehicles plying on National Highways.

Verification of documents of non-locals travelling in different transport systems would be done and those non-locals who do not possess valid documents will be detained and handed over to police to take up necessary legal course of action and to send them back to their respective native places.

Even the local buses and vehicles plying on National Highways would not be spared this time as non-locals who enter the State without valid documents by inter-State transport systems used to get down at certain places before reaching Sekmai and proceed further by means of local transports, he added.

He also informed that a team comprising of JCILPS, Sekmai Protection Committee, Advanced Women Society, Awang Sekmai Nongthombam Leikai Youth Club and Sekmai Nagar Panchayat will take central role in conducting the drive at Awang Sekmai Nongthombam Leikai.

When asked about the JCILPS' strategy to check the non-local labourers coming to the State by means of airways, Dhiren replied that the committee (JCILPS) will soon keep tight vigil at the airport and check whether the non-local labourers who come by flights possess necessary documents required under the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.Further stating that JCILPS does not prohibit all labourers from coming and working in the State, the JCILPS convener went on to explain that the committee is only asking the non-locals and non-local labourers to obtain necessary valid documents as required under the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.While seeking support from the public in making the fresh drive successful, the convener also appealed to all the agencies and factory owners in the State not to bring in labourers without valid documents from outside the State.

The indigenous people of Manipur and JCILPS have been demanding a regulation like the Inner Line Permit System since the past many years to tackle the issue of incessant influx.

It is also worth mentioning that people of the State have been eagerly waiting for the President of India's assent to the Manipur People Bill, 2018 which was passed by the Manipur Legislative Assembly on July 23, 2018.Furthermore, the people of the State have expressed strong opposition against the CAB, 2016 notwithstanding the fact that Union Home Minister Amit Shah and some other BJP leaders have been repeatedly announcing that the contentious Bill would be passed in the upcoming Parliament session.