Amit Shah asks committee on demographic change to study India’s border districts
To study demographic changes on the ground, the committee has been asked to undertake field visits to border regions, metropolitan cities as well as industrial centres.
To study demographic changes on the ground, the committee has been asked to undertake field visits to border regions, metropolitan cities as well as industrial centres.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday asserted that India does not support illegal immigration while responding to reports of 30 Indian truck drivers being deported from the United States.
A fresh administrative push on illegal immigration has prompted several undocumented migrants in West Bengal to head towards the Bangladesh border amid uncertainty over their future.
The headquarters of the committee will be located in New Delhi. The Ministry of Home Affairs will provide administrative and logistical support to the panel. The committee has been directed to submit its final report to the government within one year.
Addressing a press briefing, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that repatriation of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants would require cooperation from Dhaka.
In its letter, NESO warned that unchecked infiltration threatens to destabilise the socio-cultural fabric, demographic balance and political future of indigenous communities.
Similar demonstrations were reported from different parts of the state. TSF leaders said that the Centre as well as the state government must act on the long-pending demands of indigenous groups to implement the Ministry of Home Affairs’ directives on checking migration.
The duo, Doli Begum (37), originally from Sukhtail Village in Gopalganj, and Morium Akhtar (28), from Choudhary Gaon village in Dhaka, were found residing without valid documents in the National Capital.
In a renewed crackdown on illegal immigration, the Odisha Police on Monday detained 18 suspected Bangladeshi nationals from various villages in the coastal Kendrapara district.
The Delhi Police have unearthed a nexus involved in the illegal immigration of Bangladeshi immigrants and have arrested eleven people in this regard. The breakthrough came after the cops were probing a murder in South Delhi’s Sangam Vihar.
