The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the government of Arunachal Pradesh to submit a progress report on the racial profiling and relocation of Chakma and Hajong people.

Based on a complaint submitted by the New Delhi-based Chakma Development Foundation of India, the NHRC issued an order on Monday giving the government six weeks to guarantee the Chakmas and Hajongs' human rights are protected. The foundation had asked the NHRC to intervene in the racial profiling of 65,000 Chakma and Hajong indigenous people in Arunachal Pradesh, who were to be deported, evicted, or relocated from the state beginning December 11, 2021, as part of an "illegal census."

The Buddhist Chakmas and Hindu Hajongs were displaced by a dam in former East Pakistan and relocated in Arunachal Pradesh in the 1960s. 60,500 of the 65,000 people who make up these two communities are citizens by birth, while 4,000 migrants' citizenship petitions are still being processed. The Chakmas and Hajongs were deemed citizens by the Supreme Court in January 1996, and the Centre and the State Government were ordered to process their citizenship petitions. After the dispute was not resolved, a similar decision was made in September 2015.

The foundation cited to Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu's declaration on August 15, 2021, that the Chakmas and Hajongs will be moved outside the state in their plea to the NHRC.

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