They contributed voluntary labour, materials and money. More than Rs. 30 thousand worth of medicines, clothes and utensils have so far been distributed. There is outbreak of gastroenteritis in the camps at present. The Government medicare service is quite insufficient.
Government provides Rs.
Some of the families, whose houses were not burnt, went back to their villages. But the families which lost their belongings perhaps would stay on, in the relief camps, for longer periods. The insurgency and the ethnic violence is a burning problem in Tripura today. The population growth rate is very high. The total population in 1991 was 27 lakh in this small hilly State with about 10,500 sq.