SOURCE TNT
Agartala: Repatriation of 37 thousand Reang displacement victims living in North Tripura district for last 16 years is likely to resume sometime soon, hinted Mizoram authorities in a letter to the Chief Secretary of Tripura on Wednesday.
A highly placed source of the state administration said that a letter from the Mizoram Chief Secretary has reached Dr. SK Panda informing about upcoming arrangements of repatriating the 37 thousand Reang refugees living in North Tripura district. The letter came in reference to a previous letter from the Tripura Chief Secretary to Mizoram prior to which the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had written to Mizoram urging for speedy repatriation of the refugees.
Repeated incidents of tension between Mizoram and Tripura and incidents of arrests and reports of movements of banned insurgents in the Reang refugee relief camps have led the entire issue to be put on hold several times. The state government has, however, reiterated the issue several times to the central government. The latest pursuits came through Chief Minister Manik Sarkar asking personal intervention from incumbent Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to repatriate these people from the state’s periphery. “Their continued presence is posing a serious threat to the state’s demography and law and order situation”, he stated.
The Reang refugees living in six relief camps in Kanchanpur sub-division in Tripura had submitted a 18-point demand to the then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram when he visited Tripura in 2012. The memorandum sought repatriation with provisions for regrouped habitations in the post-repatriation phase for all those who go back home. The demands also included hike in the one-time financial assistance to the repatriated ones, introduction of the Primitive Group Programmes (PGP) etc to which the central government hasn’t yet shown any major advances.
Mysterious death of a Mizo youth named Zarzokima in 2009 stalled one of the major initiatives of repatriation while one more initiative of repatriating the Reang displacement victims living in Tripura foiled recently after those repatriated back home reported that living conditions are the lowest in Mamit district of Mizoram. Many of those who went back home through different phase of government repatriation initiatives, didn’t get their assured cash benefits, many weren’t even recognized as displacement victims once they crossed the Tripura-Mizoram border.
Agartala: Repatriation of 37 thousand Reang displacement victims living in North Tripura district for last 16 years is likely to resume sometime soon, hinted Mizoram authorities in a letter to the Chief Secretary of Tripura on Wednesday.
A highly placed source of the state administration said that a letter from the Mizoram Chief Secretary has reached Dr. SK Panda informing about upcoming arrangements of repatriating the 37 thousand Reang refugees living in North Tripura district. The letter came in reference to a previous letter from the Tripura Chief Secretary to Mizoram prior to which the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had written to Mizoram urging for speedy repatriation of the refugees.
Repeated incidents of tension between Mizoram and Tripura and incidents of arrests and reports of movements of banned insurgents in the Reang refugee relief camps have led the entire issue to be put on hold several times. The state government has, however, reiterated the issue several times to the central government. The latest pursuits came through Chief Minister Manik Sarkar asking personal intervention from incumbent Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to repatriate these people from the state’s periphery. “Their continued presence is posing a serious threat to the state’s demography and law and order situation”, he stated.
The Reang refugees living in six relief camps in Kanchanpur sub-division in Tripura had submitted a 18-point demand to the then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram when he visited Tripura in 2012. The memorandum sought repatriation with provisions for regrouped habitations in the post-repatriation phase for all those who go back home. The demands also included hike in the one-time financial assistance to the repatriated ones, introduction of the Primitive Group Programmes (PGP) etc to which the central government hasn’t yet shown any major advances.
Mysterious death of a Mizo youth named Zarzokima in 2009 stalled one of the major initiatives of repatriation while one more initiative of repatriating the Reang displacement victims living in Tripura foiled recently after those repatriated back home reported that living conditions are the lowest in Mamit district of Mizoram. Many of those who went back home through different phase of government repatriation initiatives, didn’t get their assured cash benefits, many weren’t even recognized as displacement victims once they crossed the Tripura-Mizoram border.
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