Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: May 14, 2006
URL: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200605140323.htm
Mizoram is taking "very seriously"
the illegal immigration of Bangladeshis into the state, mainly via Hailakandi
and Karimaganj district of Assam, according to Chief Secretary Haukhum Hauzel.
Five of the eight districts in the state were
regarded as more vulnerable, where the law enforcement agencies were instructed
to be more vigilant, Hauzel said.
Mizoram shares a 318-km-long international
border with Bangladesh.
Hauzel, who heads the 'State Level Monitoring
Committee on Detection/Deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants', said
that police task forces had been constituted in all the districts adjoining
Bangladesh.
The BSF and the Assam Rifles were also closely
involved in the exercise in the committee, he said.
The district task forces as well as the BSF
would submit monthly reports on the first day of each month to the Home department
which would submit its reports to the Ministry of Home Affairs every seventh
day of the month, he said.
He said that the committee was formed in compliance
with the Delhi High Court order and the instructions from Union Home Ministry.