Aizawl, July 14 -- The Mizoram government is making massive efforts to collect biometric and demographic details of over 35,000 Myanmar refugees taking shelter in the state, a senior official from the Home Department said on Sunday.

The senior official said the enrollment exercise is expected to begin in the last week of July.

He added that the enrollment will be done online using the Foreigner Identification Portal and will first be carried out in towns and villages where there is good internet connectivity.

He said all Myanmar refugees, including those who entered recently following the armed conflict between Chin armed groups in Chin State, will be covered.

The official mentioned that the government has earmarked Rs. 38 lakh for th...