Question : Internally Displaced Persons

(a) whether as per report of the UN Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, more than 30 lakhs people are internally displaced in the country;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) the steps taken by the Government to settle the displaced persons and their rehabilitation thereof; and

(d) the details of the plan to re-settle the people of North-East and remove the conflicts linked to identity and ethnicity of this region?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
(SHRI HANSRAJ GANGARAM AHIR)

(a) to (c): No such report is available in this Ministry.

(d) : The Government has been supplementing the efforts of the State Governments for maintaining peace, Law and Order in the North Eastern States in a coordinated way including through deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), sharing of intelligence, banning of Unlawful Associations operating in NE Region under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, etc.




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