Returned Tibetans Receive New Year Greetings from Government

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Returned Tibetans Receive New Year Greetings from Government

Officials from the local authorities of the Tibet Autonomous Region on the "roof of the world" Friday visited Tibetans who have returned from abroad and send relief funds to those in need.

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Officials from the local authorities of the Tibet Autonomous Region on the "roof of the world" Friday visited Tibetans who have returned from abroad and send relief funds to those in need.

Over 2,000 Tibetans have returned from abroad in recent years to visit relatives or to stay permanently. In the downtown areas of Lhasa, the regional capital, there are some 85 households of over 100 returned Tibetans.

Many of the returned are senior citizens with no children. Theyhad had difficulty in making a living overseas before they returned here.

Now they live on government benefits and are taken care of by local authorities.

Visiting the homes of some returned compatriots on Friday, officials from the regional department of civil affairs reaffirmedthat a basic living allowance will be provided to cover the daily needs of all the disadvantaged.

"It is the government that pays my medical bills and provides me with rice and flour whenever I run out of food," said Dain'gyai,one of the first to return to Tibet at the end of the 1970s, "I have nothing to worry about though I do not have any relatives here."

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