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.