Naga students’ body endorses tribe’s phased bar on “illegal immigrants”

A protest of the Naga Students' Federation (NSF). Image for the purpose of representation only. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

GUWAHATI

The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has backed the resolution adopted by the apex body of the Angami community to bar, in phases, “illegal immigrants” from working or renting property in areas under its jurisdiction.

The NSF has urged other Naga organisations to emulate the Angami Public Organisation (APO) in enforcing the Inner-Line Permit (ILP) and barring people of suspect nationality from working, offering services and renting houses.

Rooted in the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873, the ILP is a temporary travel document Indian citizens need to enter four frontier States (Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland) in the north-eastern region.