Mizoram Govt Planning To Issue ID Cards To Refugees

Guwahati: As thousands of refugees taking shelter in Mizoram, the state government is mulling to provide identity cards to them.

According to a report by ET, the procedure of issuing identity cards in now underway and around 16,000 cards will be provided.

''It is a challenging work for these people who are fanned out across the borders and in many places staying with their relatives," ET quoted an official as saying.

The official further said that several refugees are staying in makeshift camps and as soon as COVID-19 situation eases, the task group on refugees will visit the areas along the border.

Notably, the state shares a 510 Km long unfenced border with Myanmar.

Earlier, Union Home Ministry had sent out an advisory to four north eastern states --Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh saying that states and Union Territories have no power to grant "refugee" status to any foreigner, and India is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 and its 1967 Protocol.

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