Overview

• Enrollment of 32,419 Myanmar nationals will take place across all eleven districts before the end of July
• State Additional Home Secretary Andrew H. Vanlaldika emphasized the exercise is solely for identification and carries no deportation intent
• Officials have completed district-level training and received computers, webcams and other materials for the campaign
• Data will be captured via the National Informatics Centre’s Foreigner Identification Portal to create a centralized refugee database
• A similar biometric drive for Bangladeshi nationals in Lawngtlai district may be launched pending central government instructions