Entry permits should be introduced in Meghalaya to restrict the influx of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, social organisations demanded Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), along with eight other organisations, submitted a joint memorandum to Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on the issue.<\/p>\n
“The problem of influx has been plaguing the state for 30 years and has grown due to lack of sincerity and political will,” KSU supremo Daniel Khyriem told IANS Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The chief minister earlier admitted that the entry of illegal immigrants into the state was alarming.<\/p>\n
“When I visited certain parts of the state, I could see that the local indigenous people have been outnumbered by the people from outside the state,” Sangma said.<\/p>\n
The KSU sought restrictions like the inner line permit – required by Indian citizens to enter Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram – saying that the influx situation in Meghalaya might go out of control given its proximity to Bangladesh and Assam.<\/p>\n
The inner line permit is issued under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873, by the state governments.<\/p>\n
The KSU supremo said that in the last decade the state’s population grew by 27.82 percent, as per the census 2011, raising apprehensions of illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
“The influx of illegal immigrants in the state is not only alarming in areas bordering Bangladesh and inter-state border with Assam but the immigrants have outnumbered the indigenous tribals in certain areas in Shillong as well,” Khyriem said.<\/p>\n
The implementation of the inner line permit would help protect the tribal population from being “annihilated” in their own land, he said.<\/p>\n
On July 13, the state assembly in neighbouring Manipur adopted a resolution urging the central government to extend the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 to the state to check the influx of suspected Bangladeshi and Myanmarese nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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