States, civil society restive as Centre plans to scrap Free Movement Regime with Myanmar
When Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh announced in September last year that he had appealed to the Centre to scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the porous Indo-Myanmar border, he cited the influx of “illegal immigrants” and cross-border drug trafficking. Now that the Centre indeed plans to end this arrangement, state governments and civil society representing communities with ties across the border intend to make their dissent heard.