Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that India looks forward to safe and sustainable repatriation of the Rohingyas into Myanmar.
Harsh Vardhan Shringla made this remark while visiting Rohingya refugee camps at Kutupalong in Ukhia under Cox's Bazar district. He handed over Indian relief goods to Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya for the third time.
Bangladesh has sheltered over one million Rohingyas who moved into Bangladesh to escape ethnic cleansing in Myanmar's Rakhine province. India has provided the Rohingyas with 11 lakh liters of kerosene oil and 20 thousand kerosene stoves under the humanitarian activities of Operation Insaniyat.
Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya thanked India for the relief items. More than 20 thousand Rohingya families will be able to cook food with these relief materials, he stated.Harsh Vardhan Shringla further said that India all along stands beside Bangladesh during critical times.
Earlier on India provided 373 metric tons of relief goods for the Rohingya refugees in the second phase of the humanitarian aid. It included 104 metric tons of milk powder, 102 metric tons of dried fish, 61 metric tons of baby food, 50 thousand raincoats and 50 thousand pairs of gumboots.
In the first phase of the humanitarian assistance 981 metric tons of relief items were provided by India for the Rohingyas.Harsh Vardhan Shringla reached Cox's Bazar on Monday morning at 9:30 am. Then he visited the refugee camps. Later on he attended a discussion program too.
The discussion was presided over by Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Abul Kalam. Mohammad Shah Kamal, Secretary, Relief and Disaster Management Ministry and Hafiz Ahmed Majumder, Chairman, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society were also present in the discussion.
---Chanchal Dasgupta, AA
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