Aizawl: Officials in four Mizoram districts are yet to complete biometric enrolment of 29,577 Myanmar refugees taking shelter in the state, nearly a year after the exercise began under the directives of the ministry of home affairs, state home department officials said on Sunday.The officials said the process remained stalled in the four districts since…
Aizawl: District administration officials in Mizoram have completed biometric enrolment of 1,679 refugees from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and have finished 98.88% of the biometric enrolment of refugees from Myanmar, state home department officials said on Saturday.The officials said the process for Bangladesh refugees was completed with enrolment of 1,361 people sheltering in…
Aizawl: District administrations of all 11 districts across Mizoram are nearing completion of biometric enrolment of over 31,200 refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh, state home department officials said on Sunday.Breaking down the numbers, the officials said 29,047 Myanmarese and 1,447 Bangladeshi refugees had been biometrically enrolled.While six districts – Aizawl, Champhai, Lunglei, Mamit, Khawzawl and…
Aizawl: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday informed Mizoram CM Lalduhoma that Centre will provide rice worth Rs 10 crore for refugees taking shelter in the state, an official statement said on Saturday.In their meeting at in Kartavya Bhawan in Delhi, Lalduhoma apprised Shah of nearly 40,000 Manipuri, Bangladeshi and Myanmarese refugees having already…
Myanmar refugees at a community hall in Vaphai village Aizawl: The ministry of home affairs (MHA) will allocate Rs 5 crore to distribute free rice this year as humanitarian assistance to over 31,300 refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh, as well as more than 7,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) from Manipur taking shelter in Mizoram, state…
Guwahati: Mizoram CM Lalduhoma on Thursday said the continued influx of Myanmar refugees was creating a burden on the state, cautioning that more refugees may arrive in the coming months, owing to instability across the international border.Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the North Eastern Council plenary meeting in Shillong, Lalduhoma said, “Due…
Aizawl: The recent influx of over 1,000 refugees into Champhai district has increased the total number of Myanmar refugees taking shelter in Mizoram to around 40,000.The Mizoram govt is currently treating these new arrivals as temporary refugees and has not included them in ongoing biometric enrolment efforts.However, the state govt record shows, there are now…
Aizawl: Over 1,000 refugees from Myanmar have crossed into northeastern Mizoram’s Champhai district since May 2, with the possibility of an influx of more refugees amid plans by the Junta troops to move towards western Chin state after recapturing Falam town on April 25.Police reports said 811 refugees entered the India-Myanmar border trade centre in…
