MOKOKCHUNG, AUGUST 26 (MExN): The Ao Kaketshir Mongdang has step up vigil against illegal migrants with a representation to the Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung, suggesting certain specific measures to be adopted in the process of issuing Inner Line Permit (ILP) to the Non-Nagas in the district. The representation includes a list of measures as suggestions from series of deliberations on the issue by the Ao students’ union which held that the “total number of ILP holders in Mokokchung district shall not exceed three thousand at any given point of time.”
The suggestion also includes that one local individual can stand guarantor for only one ILP holder, except ‘under extraordinary circumstances’. The new ILP card would also require the photo of the guarantor affixed alongside that of the ILP holder in the document. It also stated that the Indigenous Inhabitant Certificate of the guarantor be attached along with the physical presence of the local individual standing as guarantor shall be mandatory during the process of verification for issuing / renewing of ILP.
With regards to the verification of the Inner Line Permit, the representation stated that the ILP should be issued / renewed on personal verification by the Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung. Along with other documents that may be deemed necessary, it would be mandatory for every ILP applicant to procure Permanent Residential Certificate issued by a first class magistrate from its native place as well as medical certificate including blood test results from the competent medical officer of Mokokchung.
The Permanent Residential Certificate must then be verified by the Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung through official correspondence with the issuing authority within a period of fourteen days, according to the AKM’s set of suggestions.
Moreover, the representation signed by L Imti Jamir and Imlimeren, Vice-President and General Secretary of AKM stated that the ILP should be renewed for not more than four times and that a new ILP for the same migrant, if necessary, shall be issued after lapse of one year of its expiry.
The measures further suggested that ILP issuing establishment closely monitor the process and concerned personnel in the establishment rotate every two months. The establishment, it added should not be extended to area/block headquarters
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