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Toppers Talk
Art & Culture
Polity
- Right to access internet is fundamental right declares Kerala High Court
- Legal rights of Deities in India, Difference in Natural and Juristic Person
- Bru refugees refuse to return to Mizoram
- No animal sacrifice in Tripura temple-Orders High Court
- EC’s Order on Reducing Sikkim CM’s Disqualification Period
- Law Ministry issues corrigendum to Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act
- Appointment of the Judges in India.
- New Chief Justice of India- How is CJI appointed?
- Indian Penal Code 1860, HM Amit Shah wants to Overhaul IPC
- National Population Register (NPR) 2020
- Whistle Blowers Allegations on Infosys
Governance & Social Justice
- 60% girls in Delhi colleges anaemic
- Niti aayog’s School education quality index
- Multipurpose National Identity Card
- Population pyramid : India Vs China, Demographic dividend Phase of India
- UN Population Report, India will become the most populous country by 2027
- Supreme Court upholds SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendments Act
- Comparing Population Pyramids of India and China
- Waqf boards-Their governance and purpose
- Harvard Admissions Case
- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana- Ist Anniversary, Problems and solutions
- Significance of sexual and Reproductive Health-Status of reproductive services in India
- Pregnancy in Old Age, What is In Vitro Fertilisation-Risks and legal shortcomings
- Supreme Court Judgement on NGOs and RTI
- Social Stock Exchange
- Rajasthan Govt changes EWS norms, Sets Rs 8 lakh family income as only criteria
- Global hunger index 2019
- No Government job for those with more than two kids
- Ranitidine CANCER risk
- IIT Council Introduces Tenure track system
International Relations
- Bangladesh growing faster than India ?
- Cyprus dispute explained
- Donald Trump impeachment
- India wins Hyderabad Nizam case against Pakistan
- India’s reply to Pakistan at UNGA
- Prime Minister of Malaysia calls India and invader in Kashmir
- Should India recognise the armenian genocide ?
- Why are CARICOM countries important for India ?
- Why are countries leaving OPEC ?
- Attacks on Saudi Oil facilities
- Organization of Islamic Cooperation issues statement on Jammu and Kashmir
- Sri Lanka’s relations with India & China
- US troops start pullout in Syria as Turkey prepares for operation
- What are Vanilla Islands?
- India-USA trade deal
- UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award-2019
- Modi – Xi Informal meet at Mamallapuram – Historic Chinese links
- India China informal summit in Tamil nadu
- Pakistan save from FATF blacklist till 2020
- USA blacklists China organisations over Uighur Muslim abuse
- Why is Chile burning ?
- Why is the Philippines important for India
- Xi jinping Nepal visit 2019 and impact on India
- India Pakistan Cross LOC Trade suspended, Should India revoke suspension?
- Protests in Lebanon
- Chennai to Vladivostok Sea Route
- End of baghdadi
- Indian government’s security advisory
- Indians no longer require Visa to visit Brazil
- Non Aligned Movement 2019 summit
- US backed Ceasefire between Turkey and Kurds
- Pakistan stops postal exchange with India
- China’s GDP growth slows to 6% slowest in 27 years
- Common Goods for Health project by WHO
- Turkey attack Kurds in Syria
Geography
Economy
- Behavioural Aspect of Farmer Suicide
- Is rural India really open defecation free ?
- Global Growth Slow Down
- Nobel Prize in Economics 2019
- Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
- SBI wrote off bad loans worth 76,000 crores
- Surge in Onion Price
- Agriculture Credit by RBI’s Internal Working Group
- What is Debt to GDP Ratio?
- Yes Bank Crisis
- Nobel prize in Literature – Controversy
- Boosting Indian Exports
- Sopore Fruit Mandi deserted
- What is Pink Collarisation?
- Mizoram to have Broad Gauge railway line by 2021
- Demand downturn in Indian Economy
- Payment facilitation fund
- Participatory Guarantee Scheme
- RBI’s 4th Bi-monthly Monetary Policy 2019-20
- Tourism restrictions lifted in Kashmir
- Link between Jobs, Farming, and Climate
- Draft Social Security Code 2019
- State Tax Revenues, SGST and Central Tax Devolution are likely to fall short
- Competitiveness Index 2019 by World Economic Forum
- NITI Aayog’s Water Resources Strategy
- BSNL and MTNL financial issues-DoT prepares Rs 74000 crore revival plan
- 20th Livestock Census
- India falls 10 ranks in World economic forum’s Global competitiveness index
- RBI stops Printing Rs 2000 Notes
- What is the Unified Approach proposal of OECD?
- FCI granaries overflowing
- India’s Economic Growth 2019
- Financial Sector Scams in India
- Labour Market of India
- New Strategic Disinvestment Process
- Payment Delays to Sugarcane Farmers
- Why India’s IMF Quota is not increased
- What is monetary policy Transmission? Why banks are not reducing interest
- Mahatma Gandhi’s theory of Economics
- India moves up 14 spots to 63 on world Bank ease of doing business index
- New amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act
- Power Sector Scenario in India
- Telecos to Pay Rs 96,642 crore to the Government
- Camel population declines in Rajasthan
- Merger of BSNL and MTNL
- World bank on Indian economy
Defence & Security
- Nagas Kukis Conflict, What is the cause of the latest tensions?
- Case against 50 Celebrities controversy
- Can Indian Government intercept WhatsApp?
- UP Government fires 25000 home guards, Is Yogi Government’s decision justified?
- NCRB’s Crime in India 2017 report
- Aadhaar Social Media mandatory linking case
- What is TechSagar? National repository of India’s cyber tech capabilities.
Disaster Management
Science & Technology
- ISRO’S Project NETRA
- Facebook’s LIBRA Currency in trouble
- WHO launches first World report on Vision
- 2019 Nobel prize in physics
- 2019 Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine
- Elon musk’s starlink project
- NASA’s ICON mission
- New King of the Moons in the Solar system is Saturn
- What Is Spectroscopy ?
- Quantum supremacy
Environment
- Climate Vulnerable Mapping Of India
- C40 Cities
- Gujarat Unveils emission trading scheme
- Forest Plus 2.0
- Himalayan States seeks Green Bonus
- India to Phase Out Single Use Plastic (SUP) by 2022
- Role of Volcanoes in Global Warming
- NH 766 ban controversy, Protests in Kerala against night traffic ban on the forest stretch
- Climate Change needs Global Solution
- Aarey Forest -2185 trees to be cut for Mumbai metro
- Government to build 1400 km long Green wall
- Graded Response Action Plan in Delhi
- Aerosol formation brightening clouds
- Anthrax outbreak in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Two affected buffaloes died
- Species in News from June to October 2019
- Climate Action Summit 2019
Prelims bits

Tag:GS2 || Polity || Other Constitutional Dimensions || Inter-State Relations
Why in news?
- In the 9th round of repatriation which is termed as the final one 4477 Bru families lodged in 6 relief camps in Tripura are scheduled that to return to Mizoram.
- Another initiative to repatriate the Mizoram Bru refugees stranded in the camps in north Tripura failed to receive a response from the inmates.
What is IDP?
- An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country’s borders.
- They are often referred to as refugees although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee.
- For example, 7 million Syrian refugees inside the country itself.
About Bru people:
- They are known as reang in Tripura.
- They are known as bru in Mizoram.
- They are one of the largest tribes of the 21 scheduled tribes of the Tripura.
- The bru peoples are settled in Assam and Mizoram too.
- The Bru speak Bru, a Mon–Khmer language, which has several dialects.
- In Mizoram, Bru was largely restricted to Mamit and Kolasib districts.
Why did they flee Mizoram?
- In 1995, following a clash between Mizos and Brus the Mizo associations demanded that the bru tribe be removed from the state’s electoral rolls.
- They believed that the bru tribe was not indigenous to Mizoram.
- This led to armed movements led by the militant’s outfit Bru national liberation front(BNLF) and a political one by the bru national union(BNU).
- Thousands of Brus had been lodged in the Tripura relief camps since late 1997 in the wake of a communal tension triggered by the brutal killing of Lalzawmliana, a forest guard, inside the Dampa Tiger Reserve on October 21, 1997, by Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) militants.
- They had fled Mizoram in 1997 following ethnic clashes and settled in Tripura.
- The BNU claimed that 1391 Bru house in 41 villages were burnt down and several peoples were raped and killed.
- Mizoram police put the number of homes torched at 325 in 16 villages and did not confirm rape or murder.
- Around 37000 peoples of the Bru community fled moment, Kolasib and lunglei districts of Mizoram during the ethnic strike in 1997.
- They took shelter in makeshift relief camps in kanchanpur and Panisagar subdivisions of North Tripura district and 22 years on 32000 still live in relief camps.
Efforts of repatriation:
- Around 5000 displaced members of the community have returned to Mizoram in 8 phases of repatriation held from 2009 till today.
- But many among them returned back to Tripura complaining of poor living standards and insecurity.
- In the ongoing 9th phase of repatriation (October 2019), only 210 persons have returned so far.
July 2018 four corners agreement:
- Centre announced the signing of a historical agreement with the government of Mizoram and Tripura, the union home ministry and the MBDPF.
- As part of the agreement, 32876 persons from 5407 families presently staying in Campos in Tripura would be repatriated to Mizoram before September 30, 2018.
- According to the four corner agreement,
- Rs 4 lakh would be deposited in the account of the head of each repatriated Bru family, which would mature after three years, and a payment of Rs 1.5 lakh as housing assistance.
- Each repatriated Bru family would also be given Rs 5,000 through Direct Benefit Transfer every month and free ration for two years.
- Entire process would cost ₹435 crore to the Centre over a period of two years.
- The MBDNF pulled out of the agreement after a few weeks.
Latest 9th repatriation agreement:
- The Centre has approved Rs 350 crore for the ninth phase of repatriation and the amount covers transportation and rehabilitation package expenses, which include Rs 5,000 per month for each resettled Bru family in Mizoram and free ration for them for two years.
- The repatriation attempt was the latest of the MHA involving the State governments of Tripura and Mizoram and the Mizoram Bru Displaced Peoples Forum (MBDPF), apex body of the evacuees.
Why are the bru hesitant to return?
- One time payment: the amount of Rs four lakh promised in the agreement to be given at one go in their savings accounts before they move to Mizoram
- Post repatriation safety and security: The cluster villages are to ensure their safety. Some of the places where they were earlier have been lying vacant since, but some have gone into private hands where the majority community is using it as agricultural fields. So the question is, will those lands go back to our people or will they be settled on only the vacant places? This mainly raises the security issue.
- Verification of land allotted for them in Mizoram: The Mizoram government will have to provide land in the two districts to have cluster villages and it has already expressed its inability to do so.
- Development council: they are demanding development council because People want some political security in the state.
- Cluster villages with at least 500 families in each one.
Mizoram bru displaced Peoples Forum(MBDNF):
- A refugee organization it has been the sole reorganized body representing Brus living in Tripura since their exodus from Mizoram in 1997.
Current status:
- A group of women inmates of refugee camps shouted slogans in protest against the killing of one Linda Bru, who was allegedly burnt to death by her husband on October 3, 2019, in Mamit district of Mizoram.
- A total of 51 Bru families returned to Mizoram since the repatriation began on October 3.
References:
- https://thewire.in/rights/centres-historic-agreement-with-mizoram-bru-refugees-falls-through-for-the-moment
- https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/new-bru-body-demands-adc-mizoram-to-start-repatriation-from-118080801390_1.html
- https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/new-bru-body-demands-adc-mizoram-to-start-repatriation-from-118080801390_1.html