Chidambaram assures help for resettlement of Bru refugees

AIZAWL: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today assured leaders of the Bru community in Mizoram that the Centre would do everything to ensure proper resettlement of the Bru refugees from Tripura.

"There is no human dignity in refugee camps and everybody should return to Mizoram. Fund allocation for the repatriation process will not be a problem," Chidambaram told public meetings at Damdiai and Tuipuibari villages in Mamit district.

He requested the Bru community in Mizoram to spread the message of repatriation to their brothers and sisters now lodged in the Tripura relief camps.

Meanwhile, the Bru Coordination Committee (BCC) submitted a memorandum to Chidambaram at Damdiai appealing him to extend the period of free ration to the repatriated Brus for two years.

The BCC memorandum, signed by its General Secretary Elvis Chorkhy, also urged the minister to establish Bru Migrant Facilitation Cell as proposed by the state government and start functioning of Special Development Project in the Bru inhabited areas of the state.

Earlier last night, Chidambaram had told reporters at the Raj Bhavan that the fourth phase of Bru repatriation would commence from April 26 when 669 Bru families would return from the relief camps in Tripura.