Join our Telegram Channel for Regular Updates
IAS Prelims 2019: 2000 Solved MCQ for GS Paper
(MCQ) Current Affairs April-June 2019
Important topics for UPSC IAS Prelims Exam 2019
IAS Prelims Exam 2019 Quiz-3
UPSC IAS Prelims 2019 Quiz-2
IAS Prelims Exam 2019 Practice Test-1
Indian Geography Question Bank 1000+
History of India Question Bank
Indian Polity Question Bank
10 Practice Set-IAS Prelims Exam 2019 GS Paper-I
Indian Polity Test Series for IAS Prelims 2019
IAS Prelims 2019 Test Series: 10 Practice Set with 500+ Current Affairs MCQ
IAS Prelims Exam 2019: Current Affairs Study Notes with MCQ
IAS Prelims Exam 2019 Important Study Notes GS Paper-I
IAS Prelims Exam 2019 GS Paper-1
UPSC IAS Prelims Test Series-2019 Updated
Important Study Notes IAS Prelims 2019
Modern History of India Study Notes With MCQ
Geography of India Study Notes for Competitive Exams
IAS Prelims Exam 2019: Current Affairs Study Notes with MCQ
Chakma and Hajong Refugees
- The Union government is considering granting citizenship to over a lakh Chakma and Hajong refugees, who have been living in India for over 50 years.
- The Chakmas and Hajongs lived in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and had to flee when their land was submerged by the Kaptai dam project in the 1960s.
- Chakmas are predominantly Buddhists, while Hajongs are Hindus. They are found in northeast India, West Bengal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
- Why are they called refugees?
- The Chakmas and Hajongs living in India are Indian citizens. Some of them, mostly from Mizoram, live in relief camps in southern Tripura due to tribal conflict with Mizos. These Indian Chakmas living in Tripura take part in Mizoram elections too. The Election Commission sets up polling booths in relief camps.
- In the 1960s, the Chakma refugees were accommodated in the relief camps constructed in the “vacant lands” of Tirap, Lohit and Subansiri districts of the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), a political division governed by the Union government.
- In 1972, NEFA was renamed Arunachal Pradesh and made a Union Territory, and subsequently, it attained statehood. The locals and regional political parties opposed re-settling refugees in their land fearing that it may change the demography of the State and that they may have to share the limited resources available for them.