SN urges govt to bring Dimapur under ILP regulated zone

EMN Dimapur, April 21 The Survival Nagaland (SN) has appealed to the government to bring Dimapur district under Inner Line Permit (ILP) regulated zone along with the rest of the hill districts of Nagaland, saying unless the inflow of IBIs is nibbed in Dimapur sector, it will be difficult to check the menace in other districts. For this purpose, the SN said, government should set up ILP booths at the railway station and in all the inter-state check gates. Survival Nagaland in a statement asserted that the existing ILP mechanism be strengthened and strictly implemented. It pointed out that under the existing ILP provision, even Indian citizens entering Manipur by road via Dimapur/Kohima actually need to procure ILP for Nagaland but in reality lakhs of outsiders, including illegal immigrants are residing in the state without valid documents or ILP with no effective mechanism to address the issue. The SN said, every police station should have ILP Cell on the lines of Women Cell to tackle the issue of ILP defaulters. “There should be a Detention Centre for illegal immigrants till such time they are deported after their identification and detention. No person coming from the districts of Assam- Goalpara, Dhubri, Hailakandi, Karimganj, Barpeta and Nagaon should be issued ILP without producing Indian passport as fool-proof evidence of he/she being Indian citizen.Foreigners Detection Tribunal (FDT) should be set up in the state by an Act of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. This should give teeth to the Foreigners Act 1946 in the detection, detention and deportation of illegal immigrants from the state. The FDT should have branches in all the district headquarters attached to the DC office where the ADC can be the nodal officer to detect, detain and deport illegal immigrants. The SN said, the funding pattern of the FDT, ILP Cell and Detention Center should be borne out from the consolidated fund of the state. The SN also said, the state governments of North-East India and West Bengal in tandem with the central government should concertedly evolve a process on how to best tackle the issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants leaving aside the political conundrum.