CHT Land Commission Chairman Justice Khademul Islam Chowdhury yesterday said a government team will talk with local political leaders, civil society representatives, circle chiefs and headmen to get first hand information on how it will conduct CHT land survey.

The team will start visiting CHT very soon to make the initiative taken at an inter-ministerial meeting on March 11 a success, the chairmen said while exchanging views with local journalists at Khagrachhari Circuit House.

He said the commission cannot play its due role unless the government completes CHT land survey. "The Land Commission gives priority on traditional land rights and Chittagong Hill Tracts Regulation 1900 to resolve the land disputes, he said.

He further said, “We have already invited applications from those who took refugee in India during CHT unrest and internally displaced people to resolve their land disputes as per CHT Land Commission Act, 2001 ”.