Repatriation of Reang refugees raised in LS

Issues ranging from repatriation of Reang refugees from Tripura to Mizoram to declining camel population and death and devastation caused by rampaging hordes of elephants were raised by members in Lok Sabha today.
CPI(M) member Jitendra Chaudhury urged the Centre to initiate steps to repatriate members of the Reang (Bru) community who were staying in refugee shelters in Tripura for the past 17 years to their original homes in Mizoram.
Raising the matter in Zero Hour, he said a number of earlier attempts had not yielded results and the Reangs remained in the Tripura shelters since ethnic clashes took place 17 years ago.

Chaudhury said the government should organise discussions between the community leaders of Mizoram and the Reangs before repatriating the displaced people.
BJP member from Alwar in Rajasthan, Chand Nath, pointed out that the population of camels was on the decline. He wanted the government to lift the ban on the sale of vitamin-rich camel milk.
His party colleague Vinayak B Raut wanted steps to check the rampage of wild elephants in some villages of Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra, where eight people have been killed and several injured.
Another BJP member Rameshwar Teli alleged that minimum wages were not being paid to workers working in the mines of Northeastern Coalfields in Assam. He also sought the opening of some closed mines and steps to prevent theft of coal from there.

P R Sundaram (AIADMK) opposed the government's decision to observe Sanskrit week in CBSE schools, saying all regional languages should be promoted during this week across the country and pointed out that Tamil was a historic language.