Overview

• Saying the Centre holds the final say, Home Minister K. Sapdanga told the assembly the state remains bound by its 2024 resolution rejecting border fencing and scrapping of the Free Movement Regime.
• The central government is evaluating fencing plans with the Assam Rifles and other agencies, while Mizoram maintains its objection on humanitarian and ethnic grounds.
• Official figures note 29,046 Myanmar nationals were sheltering in the state as of August 11, spread across all 11 districts with Champhai hosting more than 13,500.
• District administrations have begun biometric enrollment of displaced people, and officials say the exercise also covers asylum seekers from Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts.
• Police data reported this week show 460 foreign nationals were arrested over five years to May 2025, including 439 from Myanmar, for alleged offences ranging from drug and arms smuggling to visa violations.