Dimapur Naga Students’ Union demands govt to enact RIIN 'at the earliest'

DIMAPUR: The Dimapur Naga Students' Union (DNSU) has extended its " unblinking support" to the demand of the Joint Committee for the Prevention of Illegal Immigrants (JCPI) to table the report of the Banuo Commission on the Register of Indigenous Residents of Nagaland (RIIN) and to enact it into an Act at the next assembly session scheduled to take place on February 12, 2021.

 

With December 1, 1963, as cut-off year, DNSU also supported the demand to control the registration of indigenous people of Nagaland, including the Dimapur district, through its media cell.

 

Asserting that the state was "polluted with the influx of illegal immigrants and the residents have lost their patience, the union has appealed to the state government to avoid resisting and confusing its people and to bring more effort.

 

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Thus, the RIIN must be enforced without delay, the organization said, adding that the union said it was "always ready" to extend its full support to any democratic protest by the JCPI if the government failed to comply with the legitimate plea of the people.

 

Earlier this week, Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio in response to appeals from civil society organizations and tribal bodies requesting the government to enforce the RIIN, said that the government is working on the issue, and it will take time and no deadline should be set on this matter.