1634 Bangladeshi families illegally living in district, claims Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council
Guwahati, Mar 4 (IBNS): Over 1,600 Bangladeshi Muslim families are illegally staying in Assam's Karbi Anglong district at a time the National Register of Citizens is being updated to detect illegal foreigners here.
This was revealed by the Chief Executive Member of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC).
Tuliram Ronghang, CEM of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council revealed that these families were illegally residing in the hill district of Assam. Drives to identify and evict them are continuing.
The Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council authorities have so far evicted 1,672 houses of illegal Bangladeshi Muslims residing illegally in the hill district.
The authorities had carried out its drive at at Langkaijan area in the district and evicted over 100 families that had encroached on a forested area.
“Total geographical area in Karbi Anglong is 10,434sqkm and huge number of illegal Bangladeshi Muslims are living here. We have carried out eviction drive against them,” Tuliram Ronghang said.
Over 40 lakh people were excluded from the complete draft of the NRC that was published on July 30 last year.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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