The administration of Dimapur district, to which the inner-line permit system was extended in December last year, has started issuing ILP application and exemption forms.

Dimapur deputy commissioner Anoop Kinchi said in a release on Friday that the forms for Dimapur Sadar and Dimapur and other subdivisions could be obtained and submitted at his office and ILP counters in the district’s subdivisions.

There are three types of forms — Form I for ILP exemption application, Form II one-year ILP application and Form III, which is in use at present for labourers, tourists and students.

The Nagaland government had extended the ILP to Dimapur district on December 10 last year with immediate effect, bringing all the 11 districts of the state under the system. Dimapur district was hitherto not covered under ILP regulation.

“In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 2 of the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873, and in the interest of the public, the governor of Nagaland is pleased to extend the ILP to cover the entire district of Dimapur with immediate effect,” chief secretary Temjen Toy had said in a notification, dated December 10, 2019, issued in pursuance of state cabinet decisions of February 15, 2019 and December 9, 2019.

Henceforth, every non-indigenous person who has settled in or enters Dimapur district on or after November 21, 1979, the day the aforesaid area of Dimapur was constituted as a tribal belt vide land revenue department notification No. LR/2-118/76, will be required to obtain an ILP in the same mode and manner and under the same conditions as mentioned in the May 3, 2018 notification within 90 days from the date of issue of the December 10, 2019 notification, Toy said.

The notification said every non-indigenous person, who has settled in or entered the area of Dimapur district prior to November 21, 1979, and has been staying continuously, will be exempted along with his/her direct descendants from the requirement of having an ILP, subject to him/her producing evidence of the same in the form of documents like entry of name in the electoral roll, land/property documents, house tax, entry of name in the electoral roll of town committee, school records and trade licences, among others, to the Dimapur deputy commissioner.

Any non-indigenous person passing through Dimapur district to other states as a transit passenger and having a valid ticket will not be required to obtain ILP.

The Joint Committee on Prevention of Illegal Immigrants, comprising civil society groups of Nagaland, has been spearheading a movement to bring Dimapur district under the purview of ILP.