Talk:Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983

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Some history from a scholarly source

On 27 January 1990, the Union home secretary and the chief secretary of Assam signed a document setting a time frame for the implementation of the Assam Accord. The document mentioned explicitly that a decision on the repeal of the IMDT Act would be taken by 28 February 1991. In a meeting on 20 September 1990, between the Union home minister, the chief minister of Assam, and representatives of AASU, the AASU called again for repeal of the IMDT Act. The Central government gave assurance that it would initiate discussion on the issue of repeal with other political parties. The Act remained on the statute books, however, even as the central government continued to assure the AASU that repeal of the Act was under consideration. In a meeting on 11 August 1997 with the AASU, the Union home minister admitted that the Act’s results were indeed extremely poor and he announced that he had decided to visit the state to take stock of the situation regarding illegal immigration and the inadequacy of the measures taken to prevent it. In the following year, in April and September 1998, the central government assured the AASU that it was actively considering repeal of the Act. This assurance was affirmed in the president of India’s address to the Parliament in February 1999. In another meeting held on 18 March 1999 between the representatives of the central government, the government of Assam, and the AASU, assurances regarding repeal were given again.^[1]

-- Kautilya3 (talk) 23:28, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Roy, Anupama; Singh, Ujjwal Kumar (2009). "The Ambivalence of Citizenship: The IMDT Act (1983) and the Politics of ForclUsion in Assam". Critical Asian Studies. 41 (1): 37–60. doi:10.1080/14672710802631137. ISSN 1467-2715.

Some information from the Supreme Court

It is further averred that since the enforcement of the IMDT Act only 1494 illegal migrants had been deported from Assam upto 30th June, 2001. In contrast 489,046 number of Bangladeshi nationals had been actually deported under the Foreigners Act, 1946 from the State of West Bengal between 1983 and November 1998. The IMDT Act had failed to fulfil the objects for which it was enacted which is apparent from the poor results and it places Assam in a different position from rest of the country where the Foreigners Act, 1946 is applicable.^[1]

-- Kautilya3 (talk) 23:36, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India (UOI) and Another, Supremem Court of India, via refworld, UNHCR, 12 July 2005.

[1] Roy, Anupama; Singh, Ujjwal Kumar (2009). "The Ambivalence of Citizenship: The IMDT Act (1983) and the Politics of ForclUsion in Assam". Critical Asian Studies. 41 (1): 37–60. doi:10.1080/14672710802631137. ISSN 1467-2715.

[2] Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India (UOI) and Another, Supremem Court of India, via refworld, UNHCR, 12 July 2005.

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