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N Biren Singh made the disclosure while launching a facial recognition system for fortifying the Inner Line Permit regime in the northeastern state to check the entry of outsiders and ILP defaulters
Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh said on Tuesday that over 2,000 Myanmar nationals had entered the state due to the conflict in the neighbouring country.
Singh made the disclosure while launching a facial recognition system for fortifying the Inner Line Permit regime in the northeastern state to check the entry of outsiders and ILP defaulters. An ILP is a time-bound travel document.
Myanmar nationals had started entering Manipur and Mizoram fearing persecution at the hands of the junta following the coup in the trouble-torn country on February 1, 2021.
Singh said the government-constituted committee to check the entry of illegal immigrants had identified more than...