As many as hundred illegal migrants, who attempted to trespass into Manipur through the Manipur-Assam border at Jiribam, have been turned back during the last two days.
Forty illegal migrants with fictitious documents and identity cards who attempted to enter Manipur were turned back from the Jiribam border check post, about 222 km west of here, yesterday, official sources said here on Monday. Earlier on Saturday, 60 illegal migrants who could not speak Manipuri or any tribal dialect and appeared to be foreign labourers were also pushed back from the check post, they said. The police supported by security personnel, have been on a drive against infiltration in the state in the past few days with massive combing operations being launched at different places, they said.
They said state forces have been asked to step up checking at three major border points at Jiribam, Mao and Moreh.
NEW REFUGEES ARRIVE IN KOKRAJHAR
Relief camps in Assam’s Kokrajhar and Barpeta districts have 4,615 new refugees, while 376 have left for home in Chirang district since yesterday. In Kokrajhar, 4,587 people have sought refuge where 60,252 are housed in 50 camps while in Chirang, there are 31,442 refugees in 24 camps, official sources said on Monday. In Barpeta, 28 more refugees have sought sanctuary in four camps housing 859 which were opened following the violence during a bandh called by All Assam Minority Students Union on August 28. In Dhubri and Bongaigaon districts, no person has either left or joined the camps In Dhubri, there is the highest number of 1,46,091 refugees in 132 camps while in Bongaigaon there are 7,938 inmates in nine camps. There were altogether 4,85,921 refugees in 340 relief camps during the height of the violence.
MEGHALAYA DEMANDS PERMIT SYSTEM FOR VISITORS
Several social organisations in Meghalaya Monday staged a sit-in, demanding immediate implementation of inner line permit (ILP) to restrict entry of illegal immigrants to the state.
The demand for the system, present in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram, comes in the wake of the clashes between Bodos and migrant Muslims in Assam as the organisations contended the situation in Meghalaya might go out of control given its proximity to Bangladesh and Assam. The organisations also demanded from the government to adopt a resolution for implementation of ILP in Meghalaya during the three-day assembly session starting 5 Sep. 'The problem of influx has been plaguing the state for three decades and if the government is seriously concerned with the issue, they should implement the ILP in the state,' said the working president of FKJGP.
Forty illegal migrants with fictitious documents and identity cards who attempted to enter Manipur were turned back from the Jiribam border check post, about 222 km west of here, yesterday, official sources said here on Monday. Earlier on Saturday, 60 illegal migrants who could not speak Manipuri or any tribal dialect and appeared to be foreign labourers were also pushed back from the check post, they said. The police supported by security personnel, have been on a drive against infiltration in the state in the past few days with massive combing operations being launched at different places, they said.
They said state forces have been asked to step up checking at three major border points at Jiribam, Mao and Moreh.
NEW REFUGEES ARRIVE IN KOKRAJHAR
Relief camps in Assam’s Kokrajhar and Barpeta districts have 4,615 new refugees, while 376 have left for home in Chirang district since yesterday. In Kokrajhar, 4,587 people have sought refuge where 60,252 are housed in 50 camps while in Chirang, there are 31,442 refugees in 24 camps, official sources said on Monday. In Barpeta, 28 more refugees have sought sanctuary in four camps housing 859 which were opened following the violence during a bandh called by All Assam Minority Students Union on August 28. In Dhubri and Bongaigaon districts, no person has either left or joined the camps In Dhubri, there is the highest number of 1,46,091 refugees in 132 camps while in Bongaigaon there are 7,938 inmates in nine camps. There were altogether 4,85,921 refugees in 340 relief camps during the height of the violence.
MEGHALAYA DEMANDS PERMIT SYSTEM FOR VISITORS
Several social organisations in Meghalaya Monday staged a sit-in, demanding immediate implementation of inner line permit (ILP) to restrict entry of illegal immigrants to the state.
The demand for the system, present in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram, comes in the wake of the clashes between Bodos and migrant Muslims in Assam as the organisations contended the situation in Meghalaya might go out of control given its proximity to Bangladesh and Assam. The organisations also demanded from the government to adopt a resolution for implementation of ILP in Meghalaya during the three-day assembly session starting 5 Sep. 'The problem of influx has been plaguing the state for three decades and if the government is seriously concerned with the issue, they should implement the ILP in the state,' said the working president of FKJGP.