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Yanpvuo Kikon: Initiatives like Survival Nagaland are the only ones who are walking the talk and doing their part to fight the IBI menace and we should support them wholeheartedly by giving our inputs, ideas advices and even physical presence as much as possible. However, we also need to know the various Acts, Rules and Policies within the Administration before executing any plan of action.
Important Point to Note:
1. Dimapur is not covered by ILP(Inner Line Permit), so any bonafied citizen of India has the right to carry out any form of business activity in Dimapur.
2. ILP cannot be extended to Dimapur because ILP is a British system which was introduced before Indian Independence. Hence, this concept is outside the purview of the Constitution of India which cannot be implemented anywhere within India. Even other States like Manipur were demanding for ILP but it is impossible to introduce ILP because any law in India cannot be implemented outside the ambit of the Indian Constitution.
1. Dimapur is not covered by ILP(Inner Line Permit), so any bonafied citizen of India has the right to carry out any form of business activity in Dimapur.
2. ILP cannot be extended to Dimapur because ILP is a British system which was introduced before Indian Independence. Hence, this concept is outside the purview of the Constitution of India which cannot be implemented anywhere within India. Even other States like Manipur were demanding for ILP but it is impossible to introduce ILP because any law in India cannot be implemented outside the ambit of the Indian Constitution.
Challenges:
The District Administration and Police does not have any other legal mechanism to identify a person as a IBI, because if a person is carrying a legal document proving that he is from Karimganj, Assam then he has legal rights to do any form of business in Dimapur "As long as the house owner gives him the space to carry out his business activity."
The District Administration and Police does not have any other legal mechanism to identify a person as a IBI, because if a person is carrying a legal document proving that he is from Karimganj, Assam then he has legal rights to do any form of business in Dimapur "As long as the house owner gives him the space to carry out his business activity."
This is a big challenge because now the law enforcing agencies and district administration under the current system does not have any teeth to control the situation!
So what next? What are the Legal mechanisms to check the influx?
THE SOLUTION:
1. Adopt and Replicate the Mokokchung concept.
Mokokchung has been one of the best examples of solving the IBI issue, why are we not collaborating with those who initiated the movement?
Survival Nagaland and all other Organisation can organize a one day workshop by having the Survival Mokokchung Team come to Dimapur and give a presentation on how they implemented this successfully! After this, Survival Nagaland can adopt the Best practice and go for rapid replication of this Program in Dimapur.
Administration and Police have no teeth now, so the ball is now in the court of the Civil Society to act immediately. Pressure house owners and Taxi Union, DMC not to issue any Permits or Licenses to those IBI suspected persons hailing from 'KARIMGANJ'
2. AADHAAR, Biometric based solutions:
Till date, Nagaland has registered only about 40% of our population in the Aadhaar card registration. Civil society, Surivival Nagaland and ACAUT must pressurize the State Government to speed up the enrollment process and cover 100% of our population in the Aadhaar enrollment!
Till date, Nagaland has registered only about 40% of our population in the Aadhaar card registration. Civil society, Surivival Nagaland and ACAUT must pressurize the State Government to speed up the enrollment process and cover 100% of our population in the Aadhaar enrollment!
Why? Because Aadhaar is the solution to IDENTIFICATION! Many people in Nagaland have the misconception that Aadhaar guarantees 'Citizenship' and 'Benefits' to those who have the Aadhaar card! That is one of the biggest blunder and misconception about Aadhaar. Aadhaar provides 'IDENTITY' and not 'CITIZENSHIP'. Anybody residing in India, be it foreigners or Indian citizens are supposed to get enrolled to Aadhaar because this will enable any Government Department to easily identify any person, whether he is a local, foreigner, legal or illegal immigrant.
Once we have Aadhaar in place and e-Governance projects are fully implemented, our Homeland security can become even more efficient than the US Homeland Security! Corruption will be almost eliminated because schemes such as NGREGA, PDS(Ration Cards to Below poverty), Widow Pensions, Tendering, Criminal Tracking and even giving Indigenous, ST Certificates and other documents will be completely digitized so that no corrupt officer will be able to manipulate data, provide fake any documents by taking bribes because these will be based on the system and linked to the central Aadhaar CIDR(Central Identities Data Repository). Aadhaar itself cannot completely eliminate all the problems but it is a solution towards improving the existing problems like Sikkim and the East Godavari PDS aadhaar based system.
Sikkim is one of the glaring examples in the success of the UIDAI Aadhaar/ Biometric because now their State Government is easily able to identify between a resident from Sikkim and an outsider with their own concept of 'Foreign UID'! For example, if a migrant worker named 'XYZ' from Bihar is being checked by Police or Administration. The worker will show his Aadhaar card. Since they have all the e-Governance systems in place, the police simply enters his UID number in their system. After authentication from CIDR, the system directly shows that Mr. XYZ hails from ABC District, Bihar, Born in dd/mm/yy and other details.
While other States have gone ahead, even e-Procurement and e-Tendering have not gone ahead in Nagaland! Have you asked why? Because with this initiative all the cuts and percentages of Politicians and Bureaucrats will be almost eradicated! All Nagaland contractors and Suppliers Union, ACAUT and other Civil Society Organisations must pressurize to pass these Bills (e-Procurement and e-Tendering) in the Legislative Assembly or else the quality of all our Government Contracts and Supplies will remain as pathetic as it is.
Most of the problems in Nagaland starting from CORRUPTION and unable to identify legal/illegal immigrants can be controlled if aadhaar enrollment is completed. Because then we will have a solid database of all the people residing in Nagaland which will enable us to develop software solutions which will plug all the leakages within the existing system.
How did a country like Singapore transform from being one of the poorest, disease and corrupted infested country to become one of the Richest and least corrupted country in the world within one generation. It took one leader, 'Lee Kuan Yew', it took one Political Will to implement solid Policies and execute them with super effective administration supplemented by e-Governance(Easy, Effective and Electronic System).
All it takes to transform any society is Political Will which is Purpose-Driven and People-Centric . However, the sad case in our present Nagaland context is that our 'Political Will' has become Ego-Driven and Self-Centric.
(UID - Unique Identification, UIDAI - Unique Identification Authority of India)
Rhanlamo Lapon: The person in the picture showing driving license issued by transport department is a whole sale shopkeeper at Dobhinala so he showed me this fake document. I seized it while the police were also watching and no action taken. He is from Karimkanj, Assam. He is a IBI running a shop at city centre, the paper I seized was issued to him by an unknown person. He don't have any vehicle he said he rides bicycle, the seals are of transport department and it is a driving licence.
(The Naga Blog was created in 2008 by Yanpvuo Kikon. This column in The Morung Express will be a weekly feature every Saturday)
All it takes to transform any society is Political Will which is Purpose-Driven and People-Centric . However, the sad case in our present Nagaland context is that our 'Political Will' has become Ego-Driven and Self-Centric.
(UID - Unique Identification, UIDAI - Unique Identification Authority of India)
Rhanlamo Lapon: The person in the picture showing driving license issued by transport department is a whole sale shopkeeper at Dobhinala so he showed me this fake document. I seized it while the police were also watching and no action taken. He is from Karimkanj, Assam. He is a IBI running a shop at city centre, the paper I seized was issued to him by an unknown person. He don't have any vehicle he said he rides bicycle, the seals are of transport department and it is a driving licence.
(The Naga Blog was created in 2008 by Yanpvuo Kikon. This column in The Morung Express will be a weekly feature every Saturday)
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