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Law to help displaced in northeast urged
Morung Express | London, November 29 (PTI):
A Geneva-based displacement monitoring group has called on the Indian government to enact legislation to help people displaced by ethnic conflicts in the north-east, who today reportedly number over 76,000.
From the 1990s to the start of 2011, over 800,000 people were reportedly forced to flee their homes in episodes of inter-ethnic violence in western Assam, along the border between Assam and Meghalaya and in Tripura, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said.
State governments and district authorities have provided different levels of assistance. "However, this has generally been insufficient to make IDPs recovery possible and ensure their continuing access to basic necessities. "For example, camps are often closed prematurely to push people to return home, in spite of ongoing threats to their security".
The report said the Indian government should specifically target IDPs and ensure they were not excluded from pro-poor schemes such as the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme for universal free primary education, or programmes under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
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