The biometric enrolment of refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh in Mizoram is underway.
A senior authorities of the Mizoram Home Department confessed that the biometric enrolment procedure is under in 11 districts of the state.
The authorities stated, “Serchhip district administration initially introduced the biometric enrolment drive for the refugees on July 30 and consequently other districts started the biometric enrolment procedure. Around 11,000 refugees’ biometrics and biographic information were signed up”.
He included, “There are technical difficulties and bad network connection which these individuals are fighting. In Champhai which has around 13,580 Myanmar refugees, the workout began on July 31.”
While around 33,000 refugees from Myanmar are nestling in all 11 districts of Mizoram, and over 2,370 refugees from Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeast Bangladesh are taking sanctuary primarily in Lawngtlai district of southern Mizoram surrounding both Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The Mizoram federal government has actually just recently offered training to the district-level authorities to gather biometrics and biographic information of the refugees nestling in the state.
After a military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, refugees nestled and now their numbers have actually increased to around 33,000.
The refugees, mainly Chin people, have practically complete ethnic and cultural resemblance with the bulk Mizos of Mizoram, now protected in camps.