Free Movement Regime helps map 42,000 Myanmar nationals since Dec: Biren Singh

Guwahati: Former Manipur chief minister, N Biren Singh, Friday said the Assam Rifles has mapped biometric details of 42,000 individuals coming from Myanmar since December under the new Free movement Regime (FMR), hailing the framework as a positive step toward regulating the entry of foreign nationals through a difficult-to-police border terrain. This policy and monitoring under this framework would also help in checking the abnormal population growth witnessed in Manipur in recent years, Biren Singh said.

During a seminar at Manipur University on Wednesday, Director General Assam Rifles, Lt Gen Vikas Lakhera shared insights on the new FMR policy of the government under which the Myanmarese nationals are now being mapped.

The General Officer had stated: "After the new FMR policy came into effect, the Myanmarese nationals entering India through crossing points are now being mapped.... And various measures instituted by all government agencies concerned. Data on this is being shared with all government agencies."