The United Nations is going to reduce its allocation for food for Rohingyas in Bangladesh from $12.50 to $6 a month per person from the next month.
Officials at the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner said that they received a letter from the UN in this regard on Wednesday.
鈥榃e are aware of the decision to reduce food support for the Rohingya people sheltered in Bangladesh camps. We are working with the donors and the donors are also working among themselves to find a way to address it,鈥� said Khalilur Rahman, high representative on Rohingya problem and priority issues affairs to the chief adviser.
He told 抖阴精品 that the government was hopeful of a positive outcome soon.
The officials at the RRRC said that the UN letter had mentioned that the UN would reduce the allocation for food for Rohingyas from April 1 due to fund shortage.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the interim government has continued efforts to send back Rohingyas to their homeland Myanmar without any progress, with the number of displaced people sheltered in Bangladesh camps now standing at 1.3 million.
Myanmar鈥檚 military regime and international communities, including the United Nations Refugee Agency, have generally been blamed for the failure to send back Rohingya people to Myanmar since the large-scale exodus that began in August 2017, amid a military crackdown on the persecuted community in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.
The number of Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh camps is increasing with an average new births of 30,000 every year.
The government data shows that, out of the total Rohingya people sheltered in Bangladesh camps, 10,05,520 are registered.