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Itanagar: The Takam Mising Porin Kebang (TMPK) has officially opposed calls to extend the Inner Line Permit (ILP) system to the Mising community in Arunachal Pradesh. While the organization continues to support the ILP as a necessary safeguard for the state's indigenous tribes, its leadership argues that applying the regulation to the Mising people ignores their unique history.
TMPK President Tilak Doley stated that the community shares deep-rooted cultural, linguistic, and historical bonds with Arunachal tribes including the Nyishi, Adi, Galo, Apatani, and Tagin. He noted that the Mising people belong to the same Tibeto-Burman ethnolinguistic family and maintained strong connections to the region long before migrating to the plains of Assam.
Doley emphasized that the current Mising population in East Siang, Lower Siang, Namsai, and Papum Pare represents an uninterrupted historical presence that predates the colonial 1873 Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation. He described recent demands to subject the community to the permit regime as both unfortunate and unnecessary.
Beyond the permit issue, the TMPK expressed concern over growing opposition to granting Permanent Resident Certificates to eligible Mising individuals. Doley clarified that his community is not seeking special dominance within the state, but rather recognition of their ancestral roots. He maintained that the imposition of the ILP on a group with such longstanding local ties remains unacceptable to the organization.
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