Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) Friday joined other organisations in extending full support to the demand of the Joint Committee for Prevention of Illegal Immigrants (JCPI) for tabling the Banuo commission report on Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN) into an Act in the ensuing assembly session scheduled from February 12, 2021.
CNTC president T. Lanu Imchen and general secretary Tsungro Kithan said that RIIN has become a necessity to regulate the registration of indigenous citizens of Nagaland with December 1, 1963 as cut-off year. CNTC maintained that Nagaland has been confronted with the issue of illegal immigrants for long, and so it was time the “elected representatives of the people take it head on without deliberately ignoring it.”
It may be mentioned that JCPI, in a representation to chief minister, cautioned that if RIIN was not enacted with December 1, 1963 as the cut-off year, it will be left with no option but to “launch various democratic means of protest” in the State.