Kachin State has 89 IDP camps and more than 40,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are living temporarily in them, said Union Minister Thein Swe of Labours, Immigration and Population.
He made a response to the question of MP Lama Naw Aung of Injangyang Constituency about the difficulties faced by the IDPs living in IDP camps to obtain national registration cards (NRC) and family households list and how the ministry has plans to deal with the issue.
“A total of 41,009 IDPs from 8,131 family households are taking shelter at 89 IDP camps in the state. The ministry issued the NRC to them and 29,351 IDPs of them have been provided till February 7. Injangyang Township, Myitkyina district, is organized with four wards, 17 village tracts and 62 villages. A total of 8,006 people from 1,659 family households are living in the township,” said the minister.
A total of 3,390 locals from 1,861 family households from Myitkyina and Waimaw townships are living in them. The ministry issued 135 NRC cards and 42 family household certificates in the townships and 251 people from 56 family households have been issued temporary family household certificates, he said.
Moreover the ministry is issuing family household certificates and NRCs for ethnics, who have family household certificates in their native land, in line with rules and regulations if they live for over six months in the IDP camps and is issuing temporary family household certificates for ethnics, who have no family household certificates in their native land, he continued.
The ministry needed the confirmation from the respective village administrators that they lived in their native land and if they issued the family household certificates without confirmation from the village administrators, the family household certificates will be excessive, he added.
