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Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has announced that the State Government is acceptable to instrumentality a broad integer overhaul of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) system, calling it the "most important step" successful enhancing the monitoring of non-Arunachali question into the State.
Speaking to media astatine Koloriang, successful Kurung Kumey territory connected Friday (November 22, 2025), Mr. Khandu said the integer integration process has been nether mode for astir 3 years and the task has present entered its last stage.
“Technology partners person already completed the backend integration, and the caller ILP strategy is expected to spell unrecorded wrong the coming months,” helium said.
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The upgraded integer platform, Mr. Khandu said, volition supply the State with implicit and real-time records of each visitors, migrant workers and existing ILP holders.
"We volition yet person the information we person been waiting for. Many radical person travel in, present we indispensable cognize who they are, however agelong they person stayed, and whether their ILPs are valid oregon expired. Even those with ILPs who are overstaying volition present beryllium disposable successful the system," the Chief Minister stated. He added that a elaborate enactment connected the betterment would beryllium shared erstwhile the rollout is completed.
Responding to questions connected the beingness of amerciable Bangladeshi nationals, Mr. Khandu urged the nationalist not to panic implicit societal media claims but assured that verification and enforcement would proceed strictly.
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He said intensive ILP checks person already been conducted crossed districts pursuing directives issued to the DGP, Home Department, ACPs and SPs.
Citing authoritative data, the Chief Minister said astir 5,000 ILP violators were detected betwixt January and November this year, each of whom was pushed back.
"We bash not discriminate betwixt Hindu, Muslim oregon Bangladeshi Muslim. Anyone violating ILP norms is sent back. Once the ILP strategy is afloat digitised, monitoring and accountability volition go much robust, tightening the State's power implicit amerciable introduction and overstaying,” helium said.
Arunachal Pradesh is protected nether the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR), 1873, which mandates that each non-residents, including Indian citizens from extracurricular the State, indispensable get an ILP earlier entering.
The ILP strategy serves arsenic some a regulatory and protective mechanism, helping safeguard the State's indigenous communities, onshore rights and taste identity. Officials said, “The upcoming integer upgrade is expected to modernise enforcement portion maintaining the humanities safeguards guaranteed nether the BEFR Act.”
