{"id":3875,"date":"2025-08-21T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:18:37","slug":"assam-rifles-clarifies-42000-myanmarese-nationals-mapped-under-fmr-stay-is-temporary-media-urged-to-avoid-misreporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/assam-rifles-clarifies-42000-myanmarese-nationals-mapped-under-fmr-stay-is-temporary-media-urged-to-avoid-misreporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Rifles Clarifies: 42,000 Myanmarese Nationals Mapped Under FMR; Stay Is Temporary, Media Urged to Avoid Misreporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Assam Rifles Clarifies Statement on Myanmarese Nationals<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Headquarters Inspector General Assam Rifles (South) has issued a clarification regarding recent reports on the movement of Myanmarese nationals into India under the new Free Movement Regime (FMR) policy.<\/p>\n<p>During a seminar at Manipur University on August 20, Director General Assam Rifles, Lt. Gen. Vikas Lakhera, AVSM, SM, highlighted that Myanmarese nationals entering India through designated crossing points are being systematically mapped. He stated that since December 2024, around 42,000 individuals have been recorded using biometric and other verification measures. The collected data is being shared with all concerned government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Assam Rifles emphasized that some media outlets had misrepresented the DG\u2019s statement and reiterated that Myanmarese nationals generally stay temporarily in the North Eastern states\u2014primarily Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh\u2014before returning to Myanmar, in accordance with the provisions of the new FMR policy.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar at Manipur University was part of ongoing academic collaboration between the University and the Assam Rifles.<\/p>\n<p>The force has appealed to media houses not to misconstrue or twist statements and to present facts in their correct context.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assam Rifles Clarifies Statement on Myanmarese Nationals The Headquarters Inspector General Assam Rifles (South) has issued a clarification regarding recent reports on the movement of Myanmarese nationals into India under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/assam-rifles-clarifies-42000-myanmarese-nationals-mapped-under-fmr-stay-is-temporary-media-urged-to-avoid-misreporting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,32,33],"tags":[173,100,101,113,174,175],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-inn","category-state","tag-assam-refiles","tag-border-fencing","tag-free-movement-regime","tag-manipur-university","tag-myanmar-national","tag-north-east","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}