Mizo move to check influx
What about influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh
into Assam and West Bengal?
But what about influx of illegal migrants from
Bangladesh into Assam and West Bengal? Ever since the
defeat suffered by Pakistan at the
hands of Indian forces in 1971 resulting into the
formation of separate State of Bangladesh, Pakistan
has been on the lookout for avenging its defeat. Now
it has formed a nefarious nexus with the Government of
Bangladesh to ensure regular infiltration of the
illegal Bangladeshi immigrants into India. These poor
Bangladeshi immigrants are not only changing the
demography of border States like Assam and West Bengal
but can be lured to indulge in anti-social and
terrorist activities by the promise of money. Once,
the border States of Assam and West Bengal become
Muslim majority States, Bangladesh would lay its claim
to these two States for forming a greater Bangladesh
which would result into cutting of North Eastern
States from India which may then become independent
States. We must take this sinister design of Pakistan
and Bangladesh to divide and weaken India seriously
and Government should take immediate steps to throw
out the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
Satbir Singh Bedi
--- Pradip Kumar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mizo move to check influx
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Silchar Oct. 27: In a bid to check the influx of
illegal migrants into the state, the Mizoram
government has decided to step up its drive to
identify and deport Myanmarese and Bangladeshi
infiltrators from tribal areas.
A senior state official said last night
that following a series of high-level meetings of
state officials, the government has decided to ask
the administration of eight border districts to take
remedial measures, which he said would be executed
in phases, to tackle infiltration.
The official said the state government
was worried that Bangladeshis sneak across the
border, first seek shelter in the Barak Valley
districts and then move to Mizoram to eke out a
living as small-time traders and migrant labourers.
Retention of inner line permits issued
under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation of 1873
is one among a slew of other measures introduced to
check the illegal entry of migrants into the state.
Mizoram chief minister and president of
the ruling Mizo National Front Zoramthanga had
categorically ruled out on October 18 the scrapping
of the inner-line regulations.
The other measures include imposition of
the Inter-state Migrant Workmen Actand Contract
Labour Act for regulating the flow of arrival of
migrant labourers, fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh
and Indo-Myanmar borders and maintaining vigil along
the porous border.
The new labour laws under the twin acts
will make registration of non-Mizo labourers,
working as construction workers and domestic helps,
mandatory.
The validity of the work permit would
depend on the specified period of their stay in the
state as mentioned in the inner-line permit.
A source stated that recently a
high-level meeting, attended by Union home minister
Shivraj Patil, former DoNER minister P. R. Kyndiah
and Union home secretary V.K. Duggal in New Delhi,
discussed the use of barbed-wire fences along the
Mizoram border.
The additional secretary of the Union
home ministry (border management) R.R. Sirohi
recently visited Mizoram for an on-the-spot
inspection of the international borders. He asked
the Mizoram government to start work on border
fencing in a phased manner.
While the number of illegal
Burmese Mizos inhabiting Mizoram has been estimated
at 70,000, it also suspected that over 20,000
unauthorised non-Mizos, a majority of them
Bangladeshis, have managed to settle in the remote
parts of the state.
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