Imphal, December 04: Based on experts� findings and figures on huge influx of migrants into Manipur numbering about 7,04,488 that has overtaken current population of tribal indigenous people, the United Committee Manipur (UCM) is set to embark on a new mission to check/foil the influx.

The population of migrants comprising of Myanmarese, Nepalese and Bangladeshis as well as from within the country has crossed the number of the indigenous tribal population of 6,70,782 and a little less than the population of indigenous Meeteis and other community numbering around 9,18,626.The figures were enlisted in the recently released book �Influx of Migrants into Manipur� compiled by a group of experts, who are specialists in industrial statistics and demography, history, economics, political science, sociology, applied statistics, social science etc.

Published by UCM, the book gives a detail report of the decadal growth of population including migrants of both internal and external.

Recorded between 1961 and 2001 the number of migrants is 7,04,488, the book says.

A copy of the book has been sent to the office of the United Nations permanent forum on indigenous issue for perusal and necessary action, president-in-charge of UCM Konsam Lanngmaba told reporters today.

The figure is alarming and is shadowing safeguard of territorial integrity of the state and hence UCM would check the influx by asking the govt to frame specific policies, he added.

The huge population of migrants from Myanmar, Nepal and Bangladesh and from within the country would outnumber the total indigenous people by over 51 percent in the next three decades if the influx is not checked in time, said one of the compilers of the book.

Stating that most of the internal migrants coming form within the county are manual labourers, Dr Bijoy, a renowned economist suggested that the indigenous people should compete them in the labour market.

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