Team leaves for identifying Bru refugees in Tripura camp

A team of 30 officials led by Mizoram- Tripura border Mamit district Deputy Commissioner Lalbiaksangi today left for Kanhmun village on the banks of the Tripura border river Langkaih to undertake identification of bona fide residents of Mizoram in a Tripura relief camp from tomorrow.
Lalbiaksangi told PTI over phone that the team, comprised of officials from Mamit and Kolasib district on Assam border, which would conduct the identification process in Kaskau relief camp.
The identification process is the beginning of the proposed eighth phase physical repatriation of 3,445 Bru families lodged in the six relief camps in North Tripura district and scheduled to continue till November 21.

As per the schedule of the Road Map-V for Bru Repatriation, the physical repatriation was to commence from November 30.
As per the proposal, 2,594 repatriated families would be resettled in Mamit district while Assam bordered Kolasib district and south Mizoram's Lunglei district would host 628 and 223 Bru families respectively.