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Team leaves for Tripura Thursday

Chakmas will be persuaded once again to return home

By Special Correspondent
A seven-member delegaUon of the National Committee on Chittagong Hill Tracts (NCCHT) will try to persuade the refugees once again to return home when it visits refugee camps during its three-day visit to Tripura in India, beginning Thursday.
It is expected to hold talks with the refugee leaders, who had put stiff condlUons like involvement of the UNHCR and ICRC In repatriaUon and rehabilitation of the refugees.
Some 40 thousand refugees are living In squalid and crammed camps In southern Tripura.
By Special Correspondent
Since resumption ol the repatriation in March this year, seven thousand refugees had returned home. They have been rehabilitated with cash, food rations, cattle, building materials and jobs under a generous government programme.
But some of the refugees had complained about non-imple-mentatlon of the rehabilitation programme. The government had formed a task force headed by Kalparanian Chakma. MP. to look into the problems.
However, Upendra Lal Chakma, a former MP and leader of the refugees in India
prevailed over the remaining refugees not to return home unless their return and resettlement is supervised by the International bodies.
The government also countered it saying the Indian authorities did not allow the international agencies like UNHCR and ICRC to look after the refugees in Tripura.
As the stalemate in the repatriation process hanged over an expected accord on the decades-old CHT problems last month, the government decided to send a delegation to Tripura to sort out the issues once again with the refugees and their hosts.
It followed last month's talks with the Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) whose leaders also raised the issue and suggested that the NCCHT delegation visit the refugees in their camps In Tripura.
But indisposition and other schedules of the septuagenarian Tripura Chief Minister. Das-ratn Deb Barma. delayed the Planned visit of the angladeshl delegation
Tne delegation, led by Kalparanjan Chakma. MP who carries the rank and status of a state minister, will leave for Agartala, c apital of the Indian State of Tripura by road on Thursday morning They will travel via Brahmanbaria and Akhaura
The itinerary sent to the Tripura government includes meeting on Thursday with the Chief Minister, talks with the state officials including the Chief Secretary who are look Ing after the repatriation of the
refugees.
Besides the NCCHT has also sought the Tripura authorities' help to arrange a meeting with the leaders of the Refugee Welfare Association there, led by Upendra Lal Chakma.
He Is likely to be in Agartala on Thursday and meet the NCCHT team, the sources said.
On Friday, the Bangladesh team will be in Udaipur which has the largest concentration of Bangladeshi refugees who fled the CHT in the wake of a collapsed peace talks in 1986. The NCCHT delegation will be in Sabrum on the frontier with Bangladesh across Ramgarh on Saturday and return home via Ramgarh which is across the Feni river, separating Tripura with Bangladesh
Besides Kalparanjan Chakma the delegation will include Samiran Dewan. Chairman of the Khagrachhari District Council. Bir Bahadur an MP from Bandarban Sakhawat Hossain. Commissioner of Chittagong division Moabidul Islam. DG. Special Affairs Division the DC of Khagrachhari and Akhoy Muni Chakma. a tribal leader