Aizawl: The Mizoram government on Wednesday decided to recall all the government officials sent to conduct the repatriation of Brus from six relief camps in Tripura.

Additional secretary in the home department, Lalbiakzama, said the decision was taken in the wake of majority of the inmates of the relief camps refusing to return to Mizoram. Only four families had returned.

The officials were sent to conduct the repatriation of Brus from the six relief camps, which commenced from Saturday and was scheduled to be completed by September 25, he said.

Of the 32,876 Brus who were identified by Mizoram officials as bonafide residents of Mizoram, only 2,753 people expressed their willingness to be repatriated when officials visited them and conducted a survey recently.

Bru leaders in the relief camps had earlier expressed pessimism about the success of the proposed final repatriation as many people were not willing to return to Mizoram and continued to make fresh demands.

The Centre, however, was optimistic that the Bru families would return to Mizoram during this repatriation process after inking the agreement on July 3 between Union home minister Rajnath Singh, chief ministers of Mizoram and Tripura and Mizoram Bru Displaced Peoples' Forum (MBDPF) chief A. Sawibunga in Delhi.

In accordance with the agreement inked on July 3, in New Delhi, all the Bru refugees were to be repatriated before September 30.

The agreement stipulated that Rs 4 lakh for each repatriated Bru family would be deposited in the bank account of the head of the family, which would mature after three years and Rs 1.5 lakh would be paid as housing assistance.

Each repatriated Bru family would be given Rs 5,000 through direct benefit transfer every month and free ration for two years.