Guwahati: The Majuli administration will verify the nationality of migrant labourers in the wake of allegations of influx of illegal Bangladeshi migrants into the Upper Assam district.

The district administration on Thursday issued an order directing all contractors, placement agencies, project heads and entrepreneurs to submit a list in a prescribed format, stating details of labourers from outside the district to the local police station before engaging them in any work.

"They would be able to engage the labourers only on receiving an approval from the border branch of Majuli police administration," an official source said.

The order said in case of any violation of the direction, action will be initiated against the concerned contractor/placement agen-cy/project head/entrepreneur and the labourers according to the existing legal provisions.

"The order, which came into force with immediate effect, has been issued in the interest of maintaining peace and to check influx of illegal migrants into Majuli," the source said.

The district authorities issued the order after more than 50 labourers were apprehended by All Assam Students' Union (AASU activists from Phulani Chariali in Majuli on October 22 ,suspecting them to be illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

The workers were later handed over to the police.

They had been brought in to work at brick kilns at Majuli.

The police, however, released the workers when they produced voter identity cards issued in 2014.

Prabajan Virodhi Manch, a forum against illegal infiltration, has flayed the police for allegedly releasing them without any proper verification.

According to the convener of the Manch, Upamanyu Hazarika, merely having their names in the voter list of 2014 does not confirm their Indian citizenship.

Hazarika said even the Assam government had admitted that the voter list of 2014 contains names of more than 80 lakh illegal migrants.

He alleged that the previous Congress government had included them in the voter list to use them as a vote bank.