Kohima, 1 March (MTNews): The 14th Nagaland Legislative Assembly has passed a resolution urging the Government of India to reconsider its decision regarding the Free Movement Regime (FMR) suspension along the India-Myanmar Border. The resolution was adopted at the Assembly Secretariat in Kohima on 1 March 2024.
The house urged the GoI to work out regulations for movement of people across the borders in close consultation with the people inhabiting the border areas, and for suitably bringing in the village council authorities concerned in the entire system of regulations.
The resolution highlights the unique circumstances surrounding the Indo-Myanmar border area and emphasizes the potential hardships and disruptions that the suspension of the FMR and the fencing of the border could cause to the Naga people living in the Indo-Myanmar border.
The resolution underscored the importance of the traditional land holding system straddling the international border in many areas, where people have to cross the international border on a daily basis for their normal cultivation activities.
It also explained that suspension of FMR will seriously disrupt the age-old historical, social, tribal, and economic ties of the Naga people living on both sides of the international border.