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Around 37,000 Bru migrants from Mizoram are to be resettled in Tripura. The migrants have been living in the state for the last 25 years.
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HomeNorth East IndiaCentre agrees to extent deadline for Bru resettlement in Tripura
Centre agrees to extent deadline for Bru resettlement in Tripura
Around 37,000 Bru migrants from Mizoram are to be resettled in Tripura. The migrants have been living in the state for the last 25 years.
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Agartala (tripura) | September 21, 2022 10:08:35 pm
The Bru people are eating puffed rice, which has been distributed by different NGO'S, Churchs (Express photo/file)After a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Tuesday, Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha said Shah has agreed to extend the permanent resettlement programme. While no specific deadline has been fixed, the move came days after the August 31 deadline could not be met.
Around 37,000 Bru migrants from Mizoram are to be resettled in Tripura. The migrants have been living in the state for the last 25 years. These migrants, who fled their homes in Mizoram in 1997 following an ethnic tension, are the largest group of people to have survived protracted displacement in the region.
Speaking to the media, Saha said, his government is resettling Mizoram’s Bru migrants in Tripura in a decent manner and the extension was sought because a few migrants are still unaccounted for in government records. “The last date for the Bru resettlement expired on August 31 this year. The deadline was a part of the quadripartite agreement signed between the Government of India, state governments of Mizoram and Tripura and the Bru migrants in January, 2020.”
Saha added, “We had a meeting with the Union Home Minister on this issue. We have already informed him and placed all details of the Bru resettlement programme before him. There are some people (among the Bru migrants) who have gone outside for treatment, some have gone back to Mizoram, some also came to Agartala. We feel the door (of resettlement) should be kept open for them too.”
As many as 3,696 of the 6,959 Bru migrant families living in Tripura have already been resettled while construction of houses to resettle the rest of the 2,407 migrant families is on at 12 locations approved by the government.
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