Agartala, June 04 (ANI): A senior official of the Ministry of Home Affairs arrived in Agartala on Friday to discuss the repatriation of the Mizoram Bru displaced people sheltered in seven camps in North Tripura. Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary of MHA in charge of Northeast, met Tripura Chief Secretary Y.P. Singh and D.G.P. K Nagaraj before visiting the Bru refugee camps in Kanchanpur. Over 34,000 Brus are at present living there since they fled Mizoram in 1997 following a communal violence over dispute with the majority Mizos. He informed that the schedule for repatriation was supposed to be over by August but for some reason it could not take place. He added that the Centre has taken an initiative to continue peace talk with various insurgent groups in the region. He added that the work of fencing along the Bangladesh border to stop illegal migration is progressing fast and smoothly.
