Rapid Fire
India-Myanmar Free Movement Regime Likely to End
- 10 Jan 2024
- 1 min read
The Government of India is planning to end the Free Movement Regime along the international border with Myanmar and initiate a comprehensive smart fencing system throughout the entire stretch.
- The Free Movement Regime (FMR), implemented in 2018, allows people residing on either side of the India-Myanmar border to venture 16 km into each other’s territory without visa.
- They can cross over, on production of a border pass with one-year validity and can stay up to two weeks.
- The border between India and Myanmar runs for 1,643 km in the 4 states of Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh.
Read more: India-Myanmar Relations
