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Govt keen to implement CHT accord

Says JS body chairman

Staff Correspondent
Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of CHT Affairs, Promod Mankin at a seminar yesterday said the government is keen to implement the CHT Agreement to ensure fundamental rights of the indigenous people.
He said. "Land rights issue is one of the main reasons behind the crisis of the indigenous people and without implementing the agreement it is not possible to solve the land disputes and ensure basic rights of the indigenous people".
The government is also keen to bring back the settlers from the hill tracts in phases if they want to move, he added.
Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) and Kapaeeng Foundation jointly organised the seminar on "Government’s commitment to implement the CHT accord and active popular support" at the National Press Club in the city'.
Speakers at the seminar demanded a clear roadmap from the government to implement the agreement.
They called on the government to reform the CHT Land Commission. One of the preconditions of the accord is to settle the land disputes but none of the disputes were settled even 11 years after
signing of the accord in December 1997, they said.
They stressed the need for withdrawal of the six permanent military camps from the hill tracts according to the agreement. They also demanded cancellation of leases of lands there and restoration of the traditional communal land ownership of the hill people.
Barrister Sarah Hossain said. “CHT Land Commission needs reform. It remained dysfunctional from the very beginning for which none of the disputes were resolved"
She called for increasing representation of the indigenous people in the administration in the hill districts.
Chakma circle chief Raja Debashish Roy said sensitising the mainstream about the agreement is necessary to elucidate that the rights issues mentioned in the accord clearly corroborates with the basic rights mentioned in the constitution.
"Ensuring basic rights of the indigenous people is not possible without giving constitutional recognition to them ”, he said.
Jatindralal Tripura MP, Pankaj Bhattacharya, ALRD Executive Director Samsul Huda and P a r b a t y a Chattagram Janasanghati Samity Publicity Secretary Mangai Kumar Chakma also spoke at the seminar.