Aizawl: Mizoram government has distributed Rs20.55 lakh and other relief materials to the 385 Bru families displaced by the recent outbreak of communal wave in the western part of the state, official sources said here today.
Relief materials included 1,155 silpouline for construction of temporary shelters, 770 blankets, 158.72 quintals of rice, 7.70 quintals of dal, 36 bags of clothes and 70 numbers of large utensils.
"Some of them who had fled to neighbouring Tripura have also received the relief materials and returned to their new habitations," an official said.
Around 500 Brus belonging to about 100 families fled to Tripura due to the recent spurt of communal tension triggered by the murder of a Mizo youth by Bru militants on November 13, they said.
Earlier the three major churches donated more than Rs6 lakh and relief materials to the state-level relief coordination committee, drawing flak from NGOs of the border district Mamit.
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