The Centre on Wednesday airlifted 5,000 paramilitary personnel to northeastern states, including Assam, for maintenance of law and order duties in wake of protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, officials said.

The bill is being debated in Parliament.

Nearly 20 companies (2,000 personnel) have been withdrawn from Kashmir, where they had been sent prior to the Centre's decision on August 5 to abrogate Article 370 provisions and split the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories.

The remaining 30 companies have been withdrawn from other places and rushed to the northeastern states, the officials said.

The troops are from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).

Fresh protests have erupted in Assam, a day after an 11-hour shutdown was observed by students' bodies over the citizenship bill.

According to reports, police had to resort to the use of fire rubber bullets and lathicharge the protesters in Dibrugarh district.

Police said a journalist was injured in stone pelting by a mob and that policemen lobbed tear gas shells to disperse a crowd near a polytechnic institute in Dibrugarh town.

At least 14 trains were either cancelled, short terminated or diverted anticipating “disruptions in train movement,” NF railway CPRO Subhanan Chanda said in a statement.

Yesterday, internet services in Tripura was snapped off for 48 hours in view of the protests.