Imphal: Manipur Police detected 29 individuals, possessing Aadhaar cards as Assam residents, in Imphal West district holding ILP cards that were issued in violation of the Manipur ILP Guidelines, 2019.
A sub-divisional officer of the state Revenue department responsible for issuing these cards in contravention of the guidelines has been suspended.
Chief minister N. Biren Singh made the picture clear to reporters at his Imphal residence on Monday.
He as per the ILP Guidelines 2019 (amended in 2022), “Labour permits are issued for a specific period to a group of laborers or individual laborers brought by a contractor, firm, company, or individual engaging them for construction work.”
Biren revealed that the 29 individuals were identified after a Manipur Police team conducted a verification drive on November 30, acting on information about the presence of illegal immigrants, suspected to be Bangladeshis, who were running a bakery in the Mayang Imphal Bengoon area.
According to ILP guidelines, these individuals should have been categorized under the Regular ILP, valid for 90 days, and subject to sponsorship by a permanent resident of the state. Consequently, their labor-category ILP cards were canceled, and the individuals were apprehended and deported to their respective home state.
The state Home department has instructed the concerned district administration and deputy Labour commissioner to conduct a detailed inquiry into such lapses.
The state government has constituted a committee at the state level to review the overall implementation of ILP in Manipur, with the commissioner (Home) as chairman and representatives from UIDAI, the chief electoral officer, the Land Resource department, and district-level DCs and SPs as members. The committee has been directed to submit its report within 15 days.
“The state government will strengthen ILP gates and monitoring cells in the districts with infrastructure upgrades and amend the guidelines to address all issues related to the ground implementation of ILP soon,” Biren said.
In response to reports of approximately 1,000 people from Manipur being evicted from Assam, Biren stated that the Manipur Home Department has requested the Assam government to provide details of the evicted individuals. If the evicted individuals meet the 1961 base year criteria, the state government will arrange for their safe return to Manipur.
Regarding the case of a missing individual inside the 57 Mountain Division’s Leimakhong campus, Singh reported that combined teams of the Indian Army and state authorities are continuing their search operations, utilizing helicopters and ground teams.
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