‘Money disbursed to 173 Bru families’

Aizawl: Mizoram government has disbursed money under rehabilitation and resettlement package to all the 173 Bru families who returned to Mizoram from six relief camps in neighbouring North Tripura during June 17 to 21 last year.
State home department officials on Monday said that Rs 80,000 was disbursed to each family for rehabilitation and resettlement expenses while free ration would be given for a year.
The officials said that repatriated Bru families were resettled in 24 different villages in Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh border Mamit district after being verified as bona fide residents of Mizoram.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Bru families, who refused to return to Mizoram, stayed behind in the relief camps.
A Sawibung, president of Mizoram Bru Displaced People said that Bru people, did not want to return to Mizoram unless their demands were met.
The MBDPF has been demanding a 1.5L resettlement package. (PTI)