more-inEfforts to repatriate displaced Brus from camps in Tripura received a boost on Wednesday with 11 families returning home in Mizoram after 21 years. Officials in the two States said more families are expected to accept the rehabilitation package by September 30, the date fixed by the Ministry of Home Affairs. “Our efforts to convince the refugees bore fruit with 11 families, comprising 67 people, leaving the Khakchangpara relief camp at 1 p.m. But families supporting the Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Coordination Committee have refused to go unless New Delhi improves the rehabilitation package. Their demands include five hectares of land to each refugee family, settlement in a cluster comprising 500 families, ₹4 lakh compensation to each family before repatriation, revision of electoral rolls and identification of 1,000 refugee families allegedly not counted by the State governments involved.

Source: The Hindu September 26, 2018 18:45 UTC