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Manipur beefs up security along border:
Context
Following directives from the Union Home Ministry, the Manipur government has beefed up security measures along border areas to check infiltration of illegal migrants from Bangladesh and the Rohingya from Myanmar
New police stations
- Manipur government have opened a police station at Kotha, near the Manipur-Myanmar border
- New police stations have been opened at Behang bordering Mizoram, Jessami bordering Nagaland and Borobekra bordering Assam
- Additional police personnel have been rushed
Bridges demolished
Six bamboo bridges across the Jiri river bordering Assam were demolished by the police in order to prevent illegal migrants from Assam from crossing over
Demand for ILP
Of late students and women activists in the State have been rounding up undocumented persons who were later handed over to the police. Locals have been agitating for years for the implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) system in Manipur to regulate the entry and stay of outsiders
- It is in force in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland
- The President had declined to sign one Bill passed by the Assembly while the Centre did not consider two others
Bill to be tabled soon
The Chief Minister said a committee will soon be set up to draft a Bill on the ILP system which should be acceptable to all communities in Manipur. Some sections of tribal people had objected to the earlier Bills, terming them as “anti-tribal”
