A New Delhi-based foundation had approached the rights body against racial profiling and relocation of the Chakmas and Hajongs.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Arunachal Pradesh government to submit an action taken.n his complaint, he said on August 15 last year, Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu had announced that the Chakmas and Hajongs would be relocated outside of the state and it was confirmed by Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju.
In order to implement the plan, he said the district magistrate of Changlang had on November 26 last year notified the conduct of “Census of Chakmas and Hajongs” in all Chakma/Hajong-inhabited areas of the district to prepare and submit a report to the government on or before December 31 the same year.
Viewing this as an act of racial profiling, the CDFI founder said, “The recent measures being taken by the state with respect to Chakmas and Hajongs are absolutely contrary to the laws of the land and judgments pronounced by the Supreme Court on their rights.”
The Chakmas and Hajongs trace their roots to Bangladesh. Displaced by a dam in the then East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh), the Buddhist Chakmas and the Hindu Hajongs were resettled in Arunachal during 1964-69 by the central government, and till now no steps have been taken to rehablitate them