Manipur has detected 24,475 people identified by the state government as illegal immigrants, of whom 14,992 have returned to neighbouring Myanmar, while 9,453 remain in the state, Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam told the Assembly on Monday.
Konthoujam was responding to a question from Congress MLA Th Lokeshwar Singh during the ongoing Assembly session. He said the detections were recorded across three border districts — Kamjong, Tengnoupal and Chandel. The minister did not specify the period over which the detections were made.
According to the figures presented in the Assembly, Chandel accounted for the highest number, with 14,370 detections. Of these, 9,600 people had returned to Myanmar, while 4,770 remained in the district. Biometrics had been collected from 1,308 of those still there.