SHILLONG, AUG 6: The state government has decided to revisit the Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act, 2016 with an aim to further strengthen and making it more effective in tackling the issue of influx and illegal immigration.
“I have told the Law minister that will ask the law department to again revisit the existing Act and come up with the necessary proposed amendment as we wanted to have a very strong Act,” Deputy chief minister Prestone Tynsong told reporters here.
The proposal also came after the deputy chief minister and the law minister James K Sangma held a meeting with a delegation of the Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) held here on Monday.
The HYC have recently demanded immediate implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) to combat against the inflow of influx and illegal immigration into the state especially in view of NRC update in neighbouring Assam.
The Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act, 2016 was passed by the state government as part of the comprehensive mechanisms to check influx and illegal immigration into the state.
He said what are the clauses to be incorporated or what are the clauses which need to be deleted will be proposed in the amendment for the interest of the people of the state.
Stating that Act passed in 2016 is very important, Tynsong said, “We are going to revisit and strengthen the existing Act where it can be called as inclusive Act by incorporating some more clauses and where we don’t need ILP.”
“I personally feel if we bring 10 or 20 Acts it is sometimes useless rather I should say it is nice or it is good for even government machineries to implement if we have one Act because the meaning of this existing Act is also the same,” he added.
Pointing out that the fear perception among the people is still there, Tynsong said, “Because in our state immigration is not only illegal immigration alone but we also have migration from different parts of India and they are pouring in and we cant say don’t but what we are saying here this Act we passed in 2016 we would like to strengthen it further and then hopefully that will serve the purpose of taking care of the indigenous people of the state.”
Asked, the deputy chief minister said, “We need to revisit it as we need to bring in a comprehensive Act which is may be known as inclusive Act instead of bring again ILP act or whatever I think the existing one is good enough except we have to strengthen and incorporating more clauses in this.”
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