Key Points
India and Myanmar share a 1,643km border in four northeastern states, and the free movement regime allows people living in border areas to travel up to 16km without a visa...
India will scrap the free movement regime it shares with Myanmar and build a fence on the border with the neighbouring country, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Saturday as he also stressed that the country will be rid of Maoist extremism within three years.I)..
The government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to fence the entire India-Myanmar border like it has been done along the border with Bangladesh, Shah said at the graduation parade of 2,551 commandos of Assam Police at Guwahati, one of the five events in which he participated on Saturday..
If the Centre goes ahead with the plan to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and scrap the free movement regime (FMR), we dont have any authority to stop it, he said, adding that the border between Mizoram and Myanmar was decided by the British, and Mizos on both sides dont accept it..
In his address on Saturday, Shah said that there has been a lot of change in Indias internal security scenario in the past 10 years since the government at Centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to office..
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