Question: Recently the Union Government announced the implementation of the Inner Line Permit System in which of the following north-eastern states?
(a) Mizoram
(b) Manipur
(c) Nagaland
(d) Sikkim
Answer: (b)
Related facts:
- On 9 December, 2019 Union Government announced the implementation of the Inner Line Permit System in Manipur.
- This system implemented to exempt Manipur from the preview of Citizenship Amendment Bill.
- It has been assured by the government that no provision of Article 371 would be violated by this Bill.
- The Union Home Minister Amit Shah made an announcement regarding this in the Lok Sabha.
- The linguistic, cultural and social identity of the people of the Northeast would be preserved.
- The Manipur government has also termed the Central Government’s decision to implement the ILP system as historic.
- With that the problems of all the northeastern states would be taken care of as mentioned in the Citizenship Bill.
- This Bill contains the solution to the problems of the people of these states, as the provisions of the amendment have been incorporated after marathon deliberations with various stakeholders from northeast for last one month.
Inner Line Permit (ILP) system:
- Inner Line Permit is an official travel document issued by the Government of India to allow inward travel of an Indian citizen into a protected/restricted area for a limited period.
- It is obligatory for Indian citizens from outside those states to obtain permit for entering into the protected state.
- The document is an effort by the Government to regulate movement to certain areas located near the international border of India.
- Until now ILP system was applicable to three north-eastern states Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram. Now due the recent decision of the Central Government Manipur also came under the preview of ILP.