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The government of Meghalaya  has passed an ordinance by amendments of certain enforced acts of the state and thus indirectly prohibiting the entry of all other Indian nationals within the boundary of the state without any valid reasons although the government has said this is for the safety and security of the residents of the state. 

Now the obvious question arises here that how the safety and security of resident is determined? Are all local residents are in secured at the present state of affairs? If so what is gravity of such insecurity? Is home ministry of the state as well as state police was informed for such security concerns and why so this was not shared in public domine? 

Meghalaya government clarified that every person desire to enter in the state has to enter a form with name address and purpose of visit as well as period of stay etc. Are these not smiler in language of Inner Line Permit required for entering in protected areas like Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland etc? Is this ordinance an indirect and back door application of Inner Line Permit? 

Actually if this is understood from broader point of view,  the local state government under pressure from all powerful infamous student union who are having a premonition of danger for infiltration of so called stateless citizens of nineteen lakhs people whose name is not found in recent National Register of Citizens or NRC in neighbouring state of Assam. 

But if one analyse the human nature in socio-economic terminology it is found migration always happens for search of better lifestyle,  better economic opportunity and better places on the earth. Assam will not be an exception. It is a known fact that Meghalaya is  not a developed state and basically can be termed as a consumer state rather than producer.  It lacks any industrial activity and also lacking natural resources to contribute towards national income. The state Perennially depending on central fund for its survival. 

In such cases I will request state heads of Meghalaya kindly to examine who will migrate to a place not having better living and economy than where they are staying at present?

 It is also known fact that Assam is a better place to live and better opportunities for leading a decent life. So,  why people will migrate to Meghalaya where every chance to be treated differently by local hot heads for an outsider? 

Again,  if we look upon the data of those 19lakhs people of Assam,  major chunk are Bengali speaking Hindu and Muslim by religious  faith. So,  is it not more feasible chances that that may migrate,  if at all to nearby state of West Bengal which is not only a developed state,  it has better economic opportunities and better facility of living? Most important that West Bengal speaks the same language those stateless people speak.  Moreover, Chief Minister of West Bengal already advocated her concern for those so called stateless people. So,  it will be more likely that West Bengal will absorb those migration,  if such large scale migration happens also. 

So,  according to abovementioned analysis it is more or less sure that fear psychosis of Meghalaya government is baseless. 

Furthermore, the state will loose much share of its tourism industry which picked up a bit in recent years. Most tourist do not like to be disturbed with formalities during their tour. 

Government will be ultimately on the losing side.