Mizoram passes Maintenance of Household Registers Bill, 2019

  • On 19th March, 2019, Mizoram Assembly passed a bill that seeks to detect “illegal migrants” at the village and town level and bring in punitive measures for those making a false statement during the exercise.

Key Highlights of Bill

  • A comprehensive database of residents will be maintained via individual identification system through which it will arrest the slippage of benefits of development schemes to those who are not entitled.
  • The bill defines citizen as a person registered as such or having requisite qualification as prescribed under the Citizenship Act, 1955.
  • The Assembly will create 2 registers namely one for the citizen ....
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