Mizoram has issued birth certificates to 31 foreigners in betwwen 2012 and 2015, state Planning and Programme Implementation Minister Lalsawta today informed the state legislature.
Replying to a question from Lalruatkima of the Mizo National Front (MNF), Lalsawta said that the largest number of 17 birth certificates were issued in 2013.
Birth certificates issued to foreigners were mainly done in the international border areas where pregnant women from across Bangladesh and Myanmar came to the state to deliver in the hospitals.
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