Dec 1, 1963 ILP cut-off date, non-negotiable: JCPI

Morung Express News
Dimapur | February 20

The Joint Committee on Prevention of Illegal Immigrants (JCPI) has reiterated its demand to the Nagaland state government to establish December 1, 1963 as the cut-off date for enforcing the Inner Line Permit in Dimapur and Nagaland state in general. 

It further maintained that there cannot be two cut-off dates as far as the ILP and the proposed Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland and that the cut-off date for both should be December 1, 1963.

The JCPI told The Morung Express today that it made the reaffirmation at a joint meeting with representatives of the apex Naga tribe hohos and other civil society representative on February 18 in Dimapur.  

According to one JCPI member, it was disturbed with the Nagaland Governor RN Ravi’s recent statement in the Assembly on January 17 that distinction should be made between non-indigenous persons of the state, who settled prior to November 21, 1979 and those who settled later for applying the ILP. The then Dimapur Sub-division under Kohima district was declared a “tribal belt” on November 21, 1979. 

It has maintained that December 1, 1963 as cut-off date is “non-negotiable.”  

The member held that lacunae in the government system has allowed for misusing of the authority to issue domicile certificates in return for money. He reminded that it had served an ultimatum to the state government to submit the final report of the RIIN Commission before January 31 and the release of the final notification by February 29, 2020.

 
Further, he informed that at the February 18 meeting, it resolved to press the state government to establish Foreigners Tribunal under the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 as mandated in the Foreigners Act, 1946.