{"id":15123,"date":"2023-09-24T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T06:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15123"},"modified":"2025-04-03T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:13:33","slug":"free-movement-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/free-movement-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Free Movement Regime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Free Movement Regime:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the FMR,\u00a0<strong>all the hill tribes, whether they are citizens of India or Myanmar, can travel within 16 km on either side of the Indo-Myanmar Border (IMB).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong>can cross the border by producing a border pass with a one-year validity<\/strong> issued by the competent authority and\u00a0<strong>can stay up to two weeks per visit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The FMR\u00a0<strong>was implemented in 2018 as part of the Central government\u2019s Act East policy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>FMR is\u00a0<strong>implemented by both governments for the people living along the IMB.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This\u00a0<strong>helps locals to get more culturally assimilated with trans-border village<\/strong>s through weddings, celebrating common festivals together and trans-border trade.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>reflection of the physical, ethnic, linguistic, cultural and fraternal linkages<\/strong> among the trans-border villagers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indo-Myanmar Border (IMB):<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>runs for 1,643 km in the four states of Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>runs from the tripoint with China in the north to the tripoint with Bangladesh in the south.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Assam Rifles is tasked with guarding the IMB.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Act East policy?<\/h3>\n<p>The &#8220;Act East Policy&#8221; is a foreign policy initiative of the Government of India that was introduced as an extension of the earlier &#8220;Look East Policy.&#8221; The primary objective of the Act East Policy is to enhance economic and strategic engagement between India and countries in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly Southeast Asia. It emphasizes greater connectivity, trade, investment, cultural ties, and strategic cooperation with these nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/cancel-free-movement-regime-along-border-with-myanmar-manipur-chief-minister-2439663-2023-09-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Cancel free movement along Myanmar border: Manipur Chief Minister tells Centre<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Free Movement Regime, all the hill tribes, whether they are citizens of India or Myanmar, can travel within 16 km on either side of the Indo-Myanmar Border (IMB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}