Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board
| Formation | 1978 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh |
Region served | Bangladesh |
Official language | Bengali |
| Website | 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.
Currently Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura, a former Additional Inspector General of Bangladesh Police, is holding this post. [1]
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 first chairman from civil administration is Bir Bahadur Ushwi Sing, a 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.[2]
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