The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs that a joint team of officers visited six seaports in Gujarat, including the Adani Tuna Port, after the panel sought to know the action taken against more than 20 seaport immigration check-posts (ICP) running in violation of rules with implications for national security.
The details are mentioned in a report titled ‘Action Taken by Government on the Recommendations/Observations contained in the Two Hundred Forty Second Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2023-24) of MHA’ that was presented in the Rajya Sabha on December 7.
Earlier, in a report tabled in the Upper House in March, the panel had sought to know of the bottlenecks in the effective functioning of seaport ICPs. In this report, the parliamentary panel said that it agreed with the MHA that the non-notified ICPs were entry points for unregulated and unchecked passengers/crew, and potential security hazards having implications for national security.
