Mizoram asks the Centre for Rs. 10 billion to help displaced Manipureans
The Mizoram administration has asked the Centre for Rs 10 crore in order to help the 10,700 individuals who have been housed there since May 3 as a result of the ethnic unrest in Manipur.
State Chief Minister Zoramthanga submitted two letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 16 and May 23, according to Mizoram Home Minister Lalchamliana, asking for federal help of Rs 10 crore to offer relief and shelter to those who had fled Manipur.
The Chief Minister’s appeal has not yet received a response from the Union government, according to Lalchamliana, who also oversees disaster relief and management.
34,278 Chin state of Myanmar refugees have been housed in the small northeastern state, together with 773 Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) refugees from southeast Bangladesh.
Following the military junta’s takeover of the government in the adjacent nation in February 2021, the Myanmarese, especially women and children, are being protected in several areas of Mizoram.
Since the beginning of the year, Bangladeshi nationals have sought refuge in Mizoram after the army of that nation is said to have committed crimes against the indigenous people. Mizos and tribal people of Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Manipur’s displaced people all have a same ancestry.
The Mizoram administration pleaded with the Prime Minister and everyone else in charge on several times to consider the citizens of Myanmar as refugees and to provide them financial support for food and relief, but the Minister said that the Centre remained “non-committal.”
The unfenced porous borders that the hilly Mizoram shares with Bangladesh and Myanmar are 510 km and 318 km, respectively.
