Ten land offices will be set up in CHT to settle disputes

The government will soon set up 10 offices of assistant commissioners (ACs) of land to settle land disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
The places chosen are Ruangchari, Ruma, Thanchi, Alikadom and Naikhongchari in Bandarban district, Baghaichori, Kaptai and Kawkhali in Rangamati and Panchori and Laxmichori in Khagrachhari district, sources in the Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs ministry said.
The ministry has prepared a proposal in this regard and it will be placed at the next meeting of the secretaries’ committee on administrative improvement affairs, to be held soon, the sources added. That land offices would be set up became evident when the law on the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission 2016 was amended recently. It aims to resolve land disputes in the hills speedily. Talking to this correspondent, a senior official of the CHT Affairs ministry said they want to settle land disputes in cooperation with the local administration. For this, 10 new posts of ACs of land are being created and the new offices will be for them.
“The ACs and headmen will try to settle land disputes in cooperation with the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission. Nineteen years after the peace agreement between Shanti Bahini and the then Awami League government was signed, the authorities have not been able to resolve land disputes in the hill districts. And this is why crises have been created by various quarters in the hills from time to time,” he added.
The peace accord was signed on December 2, 1997 for ending decades of bloody struggle in the volatile hill tracts. As land disputes persist like a festering sore, every now and then conflicts and communal riots break out in the hills. A number of people belonging to ethnic minority groups are killed every year.

 

Ten land offices will be set up in CHT to settle disputes

The government will soon set up 10 offices of assistant commissioners (ACs) of land to settle land disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The places chosen are Ruangchari, Ruma, Thanchi, Alikadom and Naikhongchari in Bandarban district, Baghaichori, Kaptai and Kawkhali in Rangamati and Panchori and Laxmichori in Khagrachhari district, sources in the Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs ministry said. The ministry has prepared a proposal in this regard and it will be placed at the next meeting of the secretaries committee on administrative improvement affairs, to be held soon, the sources added. That land offices would be set up became evident when the law on the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission 2016 was amended recently. It aims to resolve land disputes in the hills speedily. Talking to this correspondent, a senior official of the CHT Affairs ministry said they want to settle land disputes in cooperation with the local administration. For this, 10 new posts of ACs of land are being created and the new offices will be for them. The ACs and headmen will try to settle land disputes in cooperation with the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission. Nineteen years after the peace agreement between Shanti Bahini and the then Awami League government was signed, the authorities have not been able to resolve land disputes in the hill districts. And this is why crises have been created by various quarters in the hills from time to time, he added. The peace accord was signed on December 2, 1997 for ending decades of bloody struggle in the volatile hill tracts. As land disputes persist like a festering sore, every now and then conflicts and communal riots break out in the hills. A number of people belonging to ethnic minority groups are killed every year.