Aizawl, Aug. 31 -- More than 33,000 people from Myanmar are sheltered in Mizoram amid the prolonged civil war across the border, but the Centre is yet to provide funds for their biometric enrolment, state home minister K. Sapdanga said today.
According to official records, 33,329 Myanmar nationals are currently scattered across all 11 districts of Mizoram, having fled since the February 2021 coup and subsequent crackdown on pro-democracy groups. Biometric registration of these refugees was launched in late July, but Sapdanga told the Assembly that the exercise is hampered by the absence of central funding.
"We do not know when the process will be completed," he admitted.
The minister also underlined that border fencing, widely seen as a ...