Tripura Govt working to complete displaced Bru Reang rehabilitation by Feb, 2023
Tripura Government is working to complete rehabilitation process of displace Bru Reang families by February 28, 2023 and so far, 4102 families out of total 6959 displaced Bru Reang families have been resettled, an Official said in Agartala on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference today, Principal Secretary of Revenue department Puneet Agarwal said, “As per a quadripartite agreement signed between the Centre, Government of Tripura, Government of Mizoram and Bru leaders, the process is underway to resettle total 37,136 Bru people of 6,959 families from seven Relief camps in North Tripura district to twelve new locations as identified by the Tripura government”.
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Agarwal also informed the media, “As of now, 4102 Bru families have been resettled and the process for resettling the remaining families by February 28 next year is underway”.
All of them will be resettled at twelve designated locations across the state. He said these rehabilitation centers will have facilities like roads, electricity, purified drinking water, health services etc. Financial assistance to Bru Reangs is also being provided through DBTs.
The agreement was signed in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi in January 2020.
Following ethnic tension in 1997 in Mizoram, around 5,000 families comprising around 30,000 Bru-Reang tribals were forced to flee Mizoram and seek shelter in Tripura. These people were housed in temporary camps at Kanchanpur, in North Tripura, a PIB Press release read.
As per the agreement, the displaced Bru Reang people would get all the rights that normal residents of the States get including voting rights and they would now be able to enjoy the benefits of social welfare schemes of Centre and State governments.
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