The agreement between Bru leaders and the governments of India, Tripura and Mizoram, signed in New Delhi on 16 January, gives Bru the choice to live in both states. In several ways, the agreement has redefined the way internal displacement is managed in India. The details of the agreement include 40*30 square feet of residential land for each displaced family, a fixed deposit of 4 lakh rupees, assistance of 5,000 cash per month for 2 years, 1.5 lakhs of rupees for building houses and free rations for 2 years from the date of resettlement. To determine the number of people settled, a new survey and physical examination of Bru families living in relief camps would be conducted. – According to the agreement, about 34,000 Bru refugees will be settled in Tripura. Twenty-three years after ethnic clashes in Mizoram forced 37,000 people from the municipality of Bru (or Reang) to flee their homes to neighbouring Tripura, an agreement has been signed allowing them to remain permanently in the latter state. Now Bru-Reangs can settle in the state of Tripura, as an agreement was signed on January 17, 2020 between the Indian government, the two state governments and the representatives of Bru-Reangs. They will receive all the facilitations of the central government and state programs like the other people of Tripura. The repatriation process began in 2010 and failed due to a new municipal dissent with only nearly 8,000 returnees.

The union`s former home minister, Rajnath Singh, had initiated an agreement between the centre, the Brus and the Mizoram and Tripura governments. In July 2018, an agreement was signed reaffirming the commitment to return more than 30,000 Brus to Mizoram and also establishing guidelines for community support. Agartala: The process of resettling displaced Bru has begun, a year after a quadruple agreement ended a two-decade-old crisis by announcing that the Bru people can remain in Tripura permanently. In June 2018, Bru leaders in Delhi signed an agreement with the center and the two state governments that provides for repatriation to Mizoram. However, most camp residents rejected the ”inadequate” terms of the agreement. Only 328 families returned to Mizoram, making the process redundant. Camp residents said the package did not guarantee their safety in Mizoram and feared a repeat of the violence that had forced them to flee. The agreement was signed in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah, the Prime Ministers of Tripura and Mizoram, bru representatives and senior officials. Under the terms of the agreement, around 34,000 Bru refugees will be settled in Tripura, with the centre providing a package of around 600 crore for their settlement and overall development.

The beneficiaries will receive a housing allowance, but the state government will build their houses and give up the property. They will be relocated to resettlement sites in four groups, paving the way for the closure of temporary camps within 180 days of signing the agreement. All residential buildings are constructed within 270 days and payments are made. Tripura Prime Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said he hoped to complete the process even sooner, in six months. The agreement is seen as a turning point for lasting peace and prosperity in the region, marked by ethnic conflicts. It is considered an important step in the center`s agenda to enter the northeastern region and solve the eternal and lasting problems to achieve the motto of the Bru community ”Sabka sath Sabka Vikas Sabkas Sabka Vishwas”, the first inhabitants of Mizoram live in makeshift camps in Tripura since 1997, after ethnic violence in Mizoram led to the displacement of an estimated 5,000 Bru families. The deal is part of the central government`s ongoing efforts to help two state governments rehabilitate Bru since 2010. To date, about 2,000 families have returned to Mizoram, while many wanted to settle in Mizoram in Tripura due to fears for their safety. The MBDPF has now accepted the deal and welcomed the pact as they will receive all the benefits they fought for. However, a local civil society body in Kanchanpur – where Bru refugees have been living in camps for 22 years – made up of non-tribal members has expressed dissatisfaction with the deal.

Nagarik Suraksha President Mancha Ranjit Nath said in the northeast today: ”We are not satisfied with the agreement because these Brus were in many ways responsible for harming the ethnic solidarity of tribes and non-tribals in Kanchanpur.” He added that this agreement could lead to problems between the non-tribal and tribal populations of Tripura. He explained that the tribal population is in favor of settling Bru refugees in the state. However, non-tribal members, especially the Bengali population, do not entirely agree with this pact. Choudhury said: ”This conflict might not have arisen if all stakeholders had been invited to give their views on the issue.” Under this agreement, the Tripura government would make the land available. Let us tell you that the agreement was reached after a detailed discussion of the Union government with the governments of the states of Tripura and Mizoram, as well as with the representatives of the Bru tribes. The Bru-Reang agreement will be signed in New Delhi on 17 January 2020 between the Government of India, chaired by Home Minister Shri Amit Shah, the governments of Tripura and Mizoram and representatives of Bru-Reang. On this occasion, Shri Zoramthanga, the Prime Minister of Mizoram, Shri Biplab Kumar Deb, the CM of Tripura, Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma, President of neDA, Shri Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, President of TIPRA, representatives of the Bru tribes and some other high-ranking officers were present. According to the 2018 agreement, the brus were promised Rs 1.5 lakh as a housing allowance, Rs four lakh for subsistence, free ration for 2 years and Rs 5,000 per month. The Mizoram Bru Displaced People`s Forum (MBDPF), the supreme body of the displaced Brus, had expressed its displeasure before signing the agreement, saying they wanted to return to Mizoram. According to one report, Bruno Msha, secretary general of the MBDPF, said: ”We want to return home to Mizoram, but without ensuring our security, livelihoods and livelihoods, how can we return amid insecurity?” In 1997-98, about 5,000 Bru-Reang families, or about 30,000 Bru-Reang tribes, were expelled from Mizoram to Tripura due to ethnic violence in Mizoram. In northern Tripura, these people lived in makeshift camps. In order to rehabilitate these refugees permanently, the Indian government has been making sustained efforts since 2010.

In 2014, around 1622 Bru-Reang families had returned to Mizoram in various lots. In addition, on 3 July 2018, an agreement was signed between the Union Government, the governments of the two states and the representatives of the refugees of Bru-Reang, which increases assistance to families. About 328 families with 1369 people have returned to Mizoram. Home Minister Shah, who led the signing of the agreement, hailed the ”historic” solution to the Bru issue. He thanked the Prime Ministers of Tripura and Mizoram, Pradyot Kishore Debbarma and some social organizations for creating the terms of the agreement. Thursday 16. In January, a quadripartite agreement was signed between the Centre, the Mizoram government, the Tripura government and a senior body of internally displaced Brus in the presence of Interior Minister Amit Shah to find a solution to the issue of the repatriation of the Bru. This problem has existed for 22 years. This agreement will allow displaced refugees to settle permanently in Tripura, where they have been living in camps for more than two years. To end the 23-year-old Bru-Reang refugee crisis, an agreement known as the Bru-Reang Agreement is being signed.

According to the agreement, more than 30,000 Bru refugees will now be settled in Tripura. The central government sanctioned the 600 crore package for the same. A four-page agreement in New Delhi on January 16 allowed some 35,000 displaced Bru tribe members from Mizoram who have been living as refugees in Tripura since 1997 to settle permanently in Tripura. The Centre, the governments of Tripura and Mizoram states, as well as representatives of Bru organisations, signed the agreement in the presence of the Union`s Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah. The ”solution” has provoked mixed reactions from human rights activists who fear it will ”legitimize” the expulsion of minority communities by ethnocentric states. .