The long-awaited repatriation of about 40,000 Mizoram Reang tribal refugees remains uncertain even as a high-level Union Home Ministry delegation visited the six refugee camps in North Tripura to finalise their return to their homeland. Official sources said that a high-level Central team, led by Union Home Ministry’s Deputy Secretary Ajoy Srivastava, visited the camps and held a series of meeting with the officials and refugee leaders. Senior officials of Tripura and Mizoram governments accepted the Central team.

The sources said the refugee leaders have submitted a memorandum containing a 22-point charter of demands to the Central delegation.

The demands include setting up of an autonomous district council for the Reang tribes in Mizoram, reservation of seats in the Mizoram Assembly for the Reang refugees and socio-economic development of the Reang tribes in that State.