The proposed meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) on Bru repatriation to be held in Delhi on Tuesday was postponed on the request of the Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF) leaders, a senior State Home department official said here on Monday.
The JMG comprised of top officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs, senior Home department officials of both Mizoram and Tripura governments and leaders of the MBDPF, the official said.
The JMG meeting was called to deliberate on the preparedness of the stake-holders for the repatriation process.
The official said the MBDPF said that they would not be able to attend the meeting due to ill-health of their leaders and the time for holding the next meeting was yet to be scheduled.
Meanwhile, the Mizoram government has already announced its proposal to commence the ninth and final round of repatriation of Brus from October and that the process should be completed before December this year.
Preparations are in full swing from May 28, the day after the election process for Parliamentary polls was over by holding a meeting of the district core committee on Bru repatriation at the border town of Kolasib, followed by a meeting at Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh border Mamit town and later at Bangladesh border Lunglei town.
“The repatriated Brus would be resettled within the Assembly constituencies where they had resided in 1997, before the exodus in accordance with the guidelines of the repatriation,” the official said.
While 4,185 Bru families were proposed to be resettled in Mamit district, 822 Bru families would be resettled in 10 villages in Kolasib district, 371 families would be resettled in south Mizoram’s Lunglei district.