Bru refugees to be ressettled in Kolasib district

Aizawl, Mar 28 : With the Mizoram government deciding to resume the stalled process of repatriation of the Bru refugees from Tripura next month, the Kolasib district administration is gearing up to receive 638 Bru families, official sources said today. While majority of the Bru refugees, lodged in six relief camps in North Tripura district, were being resettled in Mamiot district on the Mizoram-Tripura border, 628 Bru families would be resettled in Kolasib district on the Mizoram-Assam-Tripura border, official sources said. The first batch of Bru refugees would continue to be resettled in Mamit district and those returning to Kolasib district would be brought back during May and June, officials said. The refugees would be resettled in eight villages in Kolasib, officials said adding that the number of families to be resettled in the selected villages have already been decided. Kolasib district Deputy Commissioner Niharika Rai instructed all the concerned departments to submit the detailed preparations to her by March 28.