Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday said the government will recast the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Land Commission to settle the longstanding land disputes between indigenous people and Bangalee settlers in the region as per the CHT peace accord.
“The government will appoint chairman to the commission as its chairman has resigned. A retired judge of the Supreme Court may be given the charge,” he told reporters after a meeting with a delegation of Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission at his office.
He said the government will do everything for the implementation of the peace accord and if necessary, it will amend the laws in this regard.
Lord Eric Avebury, co-chair of the CHT Commission, led the eight-member delegation. Meghna Guhathakurata, Sarah Hossain, Swapan Adnan, Christina Nilson and Shirin Sultana Lira, among others, were the delegation members.
The land commission was formed on June 3, 1999 under the provisions of the CHT peace accord signed in 1997 between the then Awami League government and the The Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS).
The gazette notification on the land commission was published in July 2001. Later, an office for the land commission was set up beside Khagrachhari DC office and retired Justice AM Mahmudur Rahman was appointed as its chairman on October 10, 2001.
The tenure of the land commission expired in November 2007 but the subsequent governments did not take any initiative to make it functional, sources said.
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