Our Correspondent
Mokokchung, March 30
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ore than 200 non-Inner Line Permit (ILP) holders have been detected and deported in 16 years by the Mokokchung police in Mokokchung district.
According to the data collected from the superintendent of police Mokokchung office, since 1999 to 2014 the total number of non-ILP holders detected and deportation figures is 259 defaulters. The highest numbers of non-ILP holder detection and deportation was in 2003 with a total of 39 defaulters, followed by 36 defaulters each in 2006 and 2013 and 33 defaulters in 2000, according to the report.In 2008, the total figure of defaulters detected and deported was 25. In 2005 there were 21 defaulters, 19 defaulters in 2007, and 17 non-ILP holders in 2012 were detected and deported.
The lowest figure was four in 2010 followed by 6 each in 1999 and 2009, 8 defaulters in 2014 and 9 defaulters in 2011, the report stated.
The report also shows that during 2001, 2002 and 2003 not single non-ILP defaulters was detected.
Majority of the non-ILP cases are Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants (IBIs), asserted an official police. He said ILP is given only to Indian citizens. The Ao Kaketshir Mungdang (Ao Students’ Conference) had started a movement called “Survival Mokokchung,” in 2007 to monitor the influx illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants in the Ao Naga areas.
AKM’s president Jemti Longchar said that the movement was started to address the issue of “unchecked” and “unmonitored” influx of illegal immigrants into the community.
He added that till date more than 20,000 to 15,000 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants had been detected and handed over to the authorities for deportation since the initiation of Survival Mokokchung in 2007.
Submission of Detection & Deportation of Non- ILP Holder W.E.F 1999-2014
Sl. No Year ILP-Defaulters
1. 1999 06
2. 2000 33
3. 2001 Nil
4. 2002 Nil
5. 2003 Nil
6. 2004 39
7. 2005 21
8. 2006 36
9. 2007 19
10. 2008 25
11. 2009 06
12. 2010 04
13. 2011 09
14. 2013 36
16. 2014 08
Total 259
Bangladeshi Immigrants in India
Bangladeshis in India are members of the Bangladeshi Diasporas who currently reside in India. The mass migration into India since Bangladesh independence has led to the creation of anti-foreigner movements, instances of mass violence, and political tension between Bangladesh and India, but it has also created measurable economic benefits for both nations.
Estimates of the number of Bangladeshis in India vary widely. A census carried out in 2001 by the Indian government estimated there were 3.1 million Bangladeshis residing in India, based on place of birth and place of last residence.
A different 2009 estimate claimed that there were 15 million Bangladeshis who had taken residence in the country. In 2012 Mullappally Ramachandran, the minister of state for home claimed that nearly 1.4 Million Bangladeshi migrants entered India in the last decade alone.
In 2007 the Indian government stated that there were up to 20 million Bangladeshis living in India illegally, though Samir Guha Roy of the Indian Statistical Institute called these estimates “motivatedly exaggerated”.
After examining the population growth and demographic statistics, Roy instead states that many of the presumed illegal Bangladeshis are actually Indian citizens migrating from neighboring states.
Anti-Immigration movements
In 1978, observers noticed the names of an estimated 45,000 Bengali illegal immigrants on the electoral rolls in Assam. This led to a popular movement against undocumented immigrants known as the Assam Movement, which insisted on striking the names of illegal immigrants from the electoral register and advocated for their deportation from the state.
The movement demanded that anyone who had entered the state illegally since 1951 be deported, though the central government insisted on a cutoff date of 1971. There was widespread support for the movement, though it tapered off between 1981 and 1982.
Toward the end of 1982 the central government called elections, and the Assam Movement called for people to boycott them.
This resulted in the 1983 Nellie massacre, described by Antara Datta, as one of the largest and most severe pogroms since the Second World War. Previously, the All Assam Students Union (AASU) had emphasized economic reasons for the protests and had employed only nonviolent methods.
The Nellie massacre, a result of a buildup of resentment over immigration, claimed the lives of at least 2,191 people, though unofficial figures run to more than 5,000. No investigation of the incident has ever been launched.
The AASU denied any involvement in the massacre, and since then there have been no instances of communal violence in Upper Assam. (source: Wikipedia)
