Mizoram : Govt Decides To Admit Refugee Children in Schools

The Mizoram government has requested all district education officers to admit the children of Myanmar refugees in state-run schools on humanitarian grounds, months after hundreds of families fleeing a military coup in the neighbouring nation entered India. Children of migrant or refugee Myanmar nationals, currently taking shelter in Mizoram after fleeing the military coup in the neighbouring country, can now be admitted to schools in the state. Mizoram Education Minister Lalchhandama Ralte said “The decision was taken by the department on compassionate and humanitarian grounds.