[Assam] AT: ‘It’s impossible for Centre to d eport Bangladeshis’

[umesh sharma]

the first step in solving a problem is owning up to it - that there is indeed a problem.

The minister did the right thing - he came clean.

Now the isue is of finding solutions.  Right now anyone can get a birth certificate in India -as a matter of fact most Indians don't have one -including most AssamNetters (atleast I don't have one but can get it from the Indian municipal office of the city of my birth 35 years ago) . I use my 10th grade pas certificate showing my birthday as a proof of my DOB - like most (educated ) Indians.

Same way any illegal can get the birth certificates mad -infact I overheard or just heard some volunteers of a US based Indian nonprofit AIDIndia ( I am NOT their volunteer) saying they themselves take the harassed Delhi slumdwellers  to get documents made for them. I rerted "they might be illegal Bangladeshis" ---their young  local leader said- so what if they are illegal -aren't Nepalis working in India.

So ways have to be found to clamp down and streamline the birth certificate process.

I think that would be a first step.
Umesh 

Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:  Re: [Assam] AT: ‘It’s impossible for Centre to d  eport Ba Wow--what is this?
 

 Assam's legitimate owners can't do anything about it.
 

 Assam's true representatives won't say anything.
 

 What is going on?
 

 No wonder  then Assam's intellectuals are turning the heat up on them 'self-appointed' lot. Urohor khong boga dharit xorar procesta  ?
 

 :-).
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 ‘It’s impossible for Centre to deport Bangladeshis’
 From Our Spl Correspondent
  NEW DELHI, Aug 8 – Quite oblivious to the raging controversy over deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants in the North-East, Union Rural Development Minister, Raghu Prasad Singh today all but gave up his hands, stressing that it was impossible for the Centre to expel the Bangladeshi nationals from India. The Ministry’s admission came at the end of a press interaction through tele-conferencing organised by his Ministry with the media in Guwahati. A question by media in Delhi whether jobs under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) currently under implementation in seven districts of Assam, has also gone to illegal Bangladeshi migrants, led the Minister to respond by saying that his Ministry was helpless in such matters because if a person’s name is enrolled in the Voters List then it was entitled to be enrolled for jobs.
 
 “The Rural Development Ministry has no mechanism to detect such illegal migrants, who are availing of Central Government funds,” he said.
 
 The Minister further asserted that India was a big country and people were free to come and go. He explained the helplessness of the Centre by stressing that Bangladesh Government was not willing to accept these illegal migrants as their citizens. “What can we do if Bangladesh is not ready to accept them,” he said.
 
 “We can’t just pick them up and dump them into the river,” he argued.
 
 “You in the media take over power and we will give you five Bangladeshi for deportation. My bet is that you can’t do it,” Singh said.
 
 “We have accepted over 1 lakh refugees during the war and fed them regularly,” he said. Dismissing the problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh as BJP’s propaganda, the Minister said it was ploy of the saffron party to mislead the country. Riots, regionalism, casteism is what the party is known to propagate, he asserted.
 
 Replying to a question, the Minister did not rule out the possibility of some of the Rural Development funds falling into the hands of ULFA. That is why the Ministry has asked the States to be vigilant about fund leakages, he said.
 
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