Illegal immigrants in Manipur

01 September, 2012

Manipur Government has started to book immigrants from across the borders.

THE MANIPUR state police has started rounding up illegal immigrants staying in the state. Mostly belonging to Muslim community from neighboring Bangladesh and Myanmar, number of illegal immigrants has created alarm in Manipur during the last few years.

Immigrants are a threat to cultural and demographical threat to indigenous population. The demand for implementation of Inner Line Permit system, which has been sidelined by both the centre and state government for the last couple of years, was raised for identifying immigrants from outside the state. However, apparently due to Indian citizenship status of these immigrants from Indian states, the centre declines to issue Inner Line Permit for them. However, for those coming in stealthily from outside countries, the government seems concerned. Hence the identification and subsequent wiping out process has begun.

The state police on 30th August rounded up 43 foreign nationals including 24 Bangladeshis and 19 Myanmareses during a crackdown in selected valley areas in two separate operations. The Myanmarese Nationals were found staying at Lilong (Imphal West and Thoubal districts) while the 24 Bangladeshi Nationals at Hatta Golapati areas (Imphal east district).

Those from Myanmar came to Manipur through Moreh, Meghalaya and Tripura. Some of them have been living in Manipur for the last 8 years along with their family. Their free entry into Manipur indicates that border areas of North Eastern States are still porous. Police still continues its drive against illegal migrants to prevent unwanted incidents in the state.

Jiribam is the prime target for police to conduct such operations since there are reports of many illegal migrants settling. Influx of illegal migrants is not a small issue. Many of them have been included in the voters' list and census records of the state and the government cannot do anything against those who are included in the voters' list. According to reports, state police already sent back more than 200 Bangladeshis since 2006. Foreign nationals, who committed crimes in their countries, are increasingly infiltrating in Manipur.

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chaoba singh

It means that the state police has failed to check infiltrations of immigrants from across the borders for the last many years. hence there is increase in their numbers. It is however not late to wipe them out to save indigenous character of Manipuris.