Biometric enrolment of 58% of Myanmar refugees in Mizoram completed

The Mizoram authorities has completed the biometric enrolment of 58.15% of the 31,214 asylum seekers from Myanmar sheltered crossed the State’s 11 districts, officials successful Aizawl said connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025).

The authorities person besides collected the biometric and biographic information of 10.84% of the 2,354 refugees from Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), the officials said.

The workout has been affected by dilatory oregon nary net connectivity and trouble successful identifying the refugees surviving extracurricular the designated alleviation camps. However, the accomplishment truthful acold is deemed important due to the fact that of the State government’s earlier basal that collecting the biometrics would magnitude to “discrimination against radical who are our humor and kindred brothers and sisters.”

Chin radical from Myanmar person been trickling into Mizoram since the subject coup successful the neighbouring state successful February 2021. The Bawms from the CHT began taking structure successful Mizoram aft a subject violative by the Bangladesh equipped forces a twelvemonth later.

Ethnically related

The Chins and Bawms are ethnically related to the bulk Mizos of Mizoram. The State besides houses astir 7,000 radical displaced by the taste struggle successful Manipur.

The biometric enrolment of refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh began successful July, pursuing an bid by the Ministry of Home Affairs. It is being carried retired done the foreigners’ recognition portal.

Officials successful Mizoram said a bulk of the Chin refugees from Myanmar reside successful Champhai district. Most of the Bawms from the CHT person taken refuge successful Lawngtlai district.

“Topographical and method issues are hampering the exercise, besides net connectivity is either dilatory oregon absent successful distant areas on the planetary borders. Another occupation is the recognition of refugees residing extracurricular the designated alleviation camps,” a elder Home Department authoritative said.

Many refugees from some countries person been surviving with their relatives oregon friends, oregon successful rental accommodations.