Where are these missing 30,000?

Divya: You are right about having no system to maintain records. I really think we need some kind of a national registry of citizens, a voters’ identity card or something similar (although a national database may be going too far)

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Dirt Digger: Yes…sad but true.

UP cops finding it tough to act against Bangladeshis

With majority of the estimated 3.5 lakh Bangladeshi immigrants living in the state “managing” to procure electoral photo identity cards and ration cards, the Uttar Pradesh police is in a fix as to how to deal with the menace.

…According to an estimate of the intelligence department, which had carried an extensive drive across the state to identify Bangladeshi immigrants, there are over 3.5 lakh Bangladeshis living in the state, with temple city Varanasi topping the list with around 40,000 immigrants.

This is followed by around 30,000 Bangladeshis each in Aligarh and Ghaziabad, 20,000 each in Meerut and Muzaffarnagar and 25,000 each in Lucknow and Noida, the sources said.

“The population of Bangladeshis is increasing almost every day in the state…As their extradition is a tardy task we are keeping an eye on them”, the sources said.

…”But the problem is that majority of the immigrants claim themselves to be residents of Assam, West Bengal and areas adjoining the Indo-Bangladesh border. Cross checking their credentials is difficult as it involves time and manpower”, they said.