Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board was a government agency established in 1978 by the then-President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman in response to the rise of the Shanti Bahini insurgency in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of eastern Bangladesh.

Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board
Formation1978
HeadquartersChittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Region served
Bangladesh
Official language
Bengali
Websitewww.chtdb.gov.bd

Currently Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura,[1][2] a former Additional Inspector General of Bangladesh Police, is holding this post.[3]

History

Headed by an army general, the board was formed to provide special attention and administer the issues of the Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict. The board was formed in 1976 through the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board Ordinance.[4]

The first chairman from civil administration is Bir Bahadur Ushwi Sing, an MP of Bangladesh Parliament who was elected from Bandarban constituency and the current State Minister, Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs. He was appointed in 1996. Later in 2002 Wadud Bhuiyan, the former member of the parliament from Khagrachari constituency, was appointed as chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board.

In 2009, Bir Bahadur was appointed again as the chairman of this agency.[5]

References
  1. http://thedailynewnation.com/news/181164/chairman-of-chattogram-hill-tracts-development-board-naba-bikram-kishore-tripura--distributing---bamboo-saplings--among--marginal-farmers-in-rangamati-town-as-chief-guest--recently.html
  2. http://www.icimod.org/?q=29674
  3. "পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম উন্নয়ন বোর্ড-পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম বিষয়ক মন্ত্রণালয়" ["Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board-Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs]. Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board (in Bengali).
  4. "JS makes new law for CHT development". The Daily Star. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  5. HighBeam
  • History of Chittagong Division



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