The Indian government on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to building 50,000 houses for internal displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Economic Times reported.
Addressing the Lok Sabha, India's minister of state for home, Kiren Rijiju said the 50,000 homes project would include the building of new homes, as well as repairing ones that were damaged. The project would be driven via agencies as well as through beneficiary owners.
"The beneficiaries of the housing project are identified through a consultative process," Mr Rijiju said.
Highlighting the large number of Tamil refugees in India, who fled Sri Lanka since the armed conflict started, Mr Rijiju said that a total of 101,368 such refugees were currently in Sri Lanka.
"There has been no organised repatriation of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees since 1995," he said.
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