Mizoram government has suggested that the proposed repatriation of Brus from six relief camps in North Tripura district should begin from November after the monsoon is over, a senior home department official said today.
The official, however, said that the union home ministry would take the final call for the commencement of the repatriation process.
The effort to repatriate 3,500 Bru families during June to September in 2015 failed as not a single Bru came forward in their respective relief camps before the Mizoram officials, he said.
Though a number of Bru families earlier returned to Mizoram during repeated repatriation process, a sizable number of families are still staying in the neighbouring state.
Thousands of Bru families fled Mizoram and migrated to Tripura due to ethnic tension in 1997.
