Dimapur, Oct. 6 (EMN): The Joint Committee on Prevention of Illegal Immigrants (JCPI), which is a recently formed body under the aegis of Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC), has submitted additional suggestions and ‘supplementary points of its findings’ with regard to the illegal immigrant issue to the committee on ILP/BEFR headed by commissioner and secretary, Abhishek Singh IAS on Oct. 4 at Kohima.
The JCPI, in a press release, said that the meeting with the state government constituted committee as ‘ very cordial’ ‘ and that the JCPI will extend fullest co-operation to the committee. However, at the meeting, the JCPI reiterated that Dimapur should be brought under the purview of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) at all cost. It said that Comm. Secy. Abhishek Singh notified the JCPI team that the committee on ILP/BEFR, within 15 days of its formation, had submitted its interim report to the government and that the final report will be placed within 2 months i.e. within Nov. 2018.
Meanwhile, the JCPI also provided a copy of the representation to the chief secretary, Nagaland wherein it made additional and supplementary suggestions which can be incorporated in the final drat with regard to the illegal immigrants issue.
It asked the state government to make the issuance of Aadhar card only by competent authorities, especially in Dimapur and Kohima, and outsourcing should be stopped. It said that in Dimapur alone, there are five Aadhar issuing centres and alleged that unaccountable number of Aadhar cards has been issued to IBIs (illegal Bangladeshi immigrants) or people of doubtful origin with their addresses as Dimapur which needs to be re-validated by any means.
It also asked the government to recheck all the indigenous certificate/ST certificates issued during the last 20 years. It cast aspersion on the DC office whether it has proper records of such documents; it said that unscrupulous elements are also selling such certificates in the market and doubted the role of administrative officers cannot be discounted. Alleging that non-Indigenous tribes from neighbouring states of Manipur, Assam, etc., are wilfully given the names of villages in Nagaland as their native village while filling up the forms for Indigenous/ST certificates, the JCPI, therefore, said that the criteria for issuing Indigenous/ST Certificate should be based on the production of proper documents proving one’s lineage/ancestry as per the 1963 Electoral roll, land patta, etc.
The JCPI also raised serious concern over the rampant issuance of land pattas and said that non-Nagas and Nagas from neighbouring states are rampantly buying land in Dimapur.
While terming it as a multi-crore scam where the role of administrative officers cannot be ruled out too. It also raised concern over non-Nagas and IBIs/illegal immigrants, married to Naga women, buying land in their wives name for the sole purpose of establishing themselves permanently in Nagaland. Saying that children of such matrimonies are ineligible ‘for land inheritance under any circumstance’, the JCPI said that necessary laws should be enacted to make it explicitly clear.
On the issuance of Permanent Resident Certificates (PRC), the JCPI said that ‘GBs/Chairmen’ cannot issue PRC and if abetting illegal immigrants in any manner, then they should be summarily dismissed from service.
It also asked to streamline the issuance of birth certificates which has become sort of a business venture in Dimapur. It said that the dept. of economics and statics issues birth certificates through a centre in the DMC complex and six other places; it alleged that the centre in the DMC centre is rampantly issuing the certificates by charging INR 200 for Nagas and INR 300 for non-Nagas per certificates.
It pointed out that during the recent NRC exercise in Assam, it was found that nearly 80,000 birth certificates were issued from Nagaland, the major bulk of it being issued from Dimapur.
“The JCPI demands that the status of these certificates in the Home Department be declared to the Naga public,” it stated.
On the issue of electoral rolls, the JCPI said that many-Nagas, mostly IBIs have enrolled themselves under different assembly constituencies of Dimapur which is being dictated purely by vote-bank politics.
Suggesting that the election commission of India (ECI) should carry out intensive revision of Nagaland e-roll to weed out IBI elements who are already enrolled in Assam as well, the JCPI said that the ECI has the requisite software to detect registration of names in two states. It said that the names in the e-roll of Dimapur district should be cross-swapped with the Assam e-roll to detect multiple entries, the JCPI said that it shall get in touch with the ECI with regard to this matter.
“The JCPI is hopeful that all aspects of the matter discussed thus far, including the demand for bringing Dimapur under the purview of ILP, will be addressed positively,” stated the JCPI representation to the state government.
