Current Affairs 15 April 2021 – IAS Current Affairs
Current Affairs 15 April 2021 focuses on Prelims-Mains perspective. Major events are :
- Tribal body concerns over Nagaland’s version of NRC
Tribal body concerns over Nagaland’s version of NRC
Why In News ?
An apex body of Naga tribes raised concern over the Nagaland government not to speed up with the exercise to prepare the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN), seen as a variant of Assam’s National Register of Citizens.
Key Facts
- The Nagaland government has reportedly been trying to revive the RIIN exercise that was launched in July 2019.
- Stated objective of preventing outsiders from obtaining fake indigenous certificates for seeking jobs and benefits of government schemes.
- State government had formed a three-member panel for studying, examining, and recommending and advising on the implementation of RIIN.
- Exercise was suspended following protests from community-based and extremist organisations.
- Naga Hoho, the apex tribal body objected to the RIIN in 2019
- The objection is due to the State government’s alleged bid to implement RIIN with a tentative timetable for different stages of the updating process.
- Major objections Raised :
- Identification process with December 1, 1963 the day Nagaland attained statehood as the cut-off date for determining the permanent residents of the State.
- This date may exclude Nagas who have come from beyond the boundaries of Nagaland.
- Naga tribes living in Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh in India and in Myanmar have a legitimate claim to their ancestral homeland.
- Also feared that the non-indigenous Nagas could be treated as illegal immigrants and their lands and property confiscated.
Source : The Hindu
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