Plight of the BRU refugees:

1 T-shirt, 1 pant piece per adult once a year!
Mosquito net 1 blanket per family once three years!
Bathing soap once a year!

" Is this how you treat people of this country" Justice Madan B Lokur heading a social justice bench after going through an affidavit submitted by the ministry of Home affairs

Supreme Court has expressed shock over the Centre’s treatment of the Bru tribals staying in the relief camps in Tripura. Over 35,000 Bru tribals from Mizoram are put in six relief camps in Kanchanpur and Panisagar in Tripura for the last 17 years after they fled their villages in Mizoram following ethnic troubles. These people are provided with only one soap in a year and one T-shirt, and one pant in three years.
The government submitted to the court that it provided a cash dole of Rs 5 per day to each adults and Rs 2.50 to each minor staying in the camp. Apart from that one T-shirt and one pant piece per adult, one mosquito net and blanket per family once in three years, and one bathing soap per head once in a year were provided to the people as giving them further amenities would obstruct them to go back to their place of residence. The government’s affidavit said it was extending grant-in-aid to the Tripura government since 1997 to help the Bru families in the six relief camps and the ministry so far had released approximately Rs 231 crore to Tripura government and Rs 35 crore to Mizoram government.
The court said that the government cannot say it did not want to improve the condition in the camp, because this would affect their going back to their original place of residence and hence, asked the government to come up with some concrete plan after discussing the matter with the governments of Tripura and Mizoram.