Land Commission fails to get green light
By Shanti Moy Chakma
Rangamati, July 11, 2009 (UJI): The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord still uncertain to full implementation. The Land Commission formed to resolve land disputes in CHT by the Awami League Government in 1998. A five-member Land Commission that Chief justice serves as Chairman while Chairman of the CHT Regional Council or his representative and an additional Commissioner work as its members.
Depending on the area the Commission works, one of the three Circle Chiefs (Chakma, Bomang, and Moung Circle) and one of the Chairman of the three hill district council’s work as members of the Commission.
As the former successive governments failed to take proper steps to make the commission functional, land settlement process faces serious hindrance and a large number of applications from both Bengali infiltrators and Indigenous people have remained piled up at the offices of concerned Circle Chiefs and Deputy Commissioners.
With thousands of land related cases in the courts of three hill districts remaining unresolved, land dispute has become a most complicated issue in the CHT.
Steps should be taken to make the Land Commission functional to resolve land disputes and it is a must for full execution of the Peace Accord. Meanwhile the posts of Chairman, Secretary and Registrar of the Commission are currently lying vacant.
During past BNP-led four-party alliance rule, the Land Ministry issued a directive to the Upazila Nirbahi Officers in CHT for preparation of necessary documents to give indigenous people ownership of the land that they have been cultivating for long. But it was later cancelled through an order from the CHT Affairs Ministry, sources said.
Former Land Commission Secretary Dipen Dewan, who was also a joint district judge, said he had completed preparations to recruit manpower for the Commission but it could not be done due to what he said non-cooperation of the then Chairman of the Commission.
Mr. Ushatan Talukder, a leading top leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS), said, “We submitted a proposal to the government for bringing reforms into the Land Commission to make it functional but to no effect.”
The State Minister for CHT Affairs Ministry, Mr. Dipankar Talukder said the government is aware of the problems and the steps to resolve issues are “under process”.
By Shanti Moy Chakma
Rangamati, July 11, 2009 (UJI): The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord still uncertain to full implementation. The Land Commission formed to resolve land disputes in CHT by the Awami League Government in 1998. A five-member Land Commission that Chief justice serves as Chairman while Chairman of the CHT Regional Council or his representative and an additional Commissioner work as its members.
Depending on the area the Commission works, one of the three Circle Chiefs (Chakma, Bomang, and Moung Circle) and one of the Chairman of the three hill district council’s work as members of the Commission.
As the former successive governments failed to take proper steps to make the commission functional, land settlement process faces serious hindrance and a large number of applications from both Bengali infiltrators and Indigenous people have remained piled up at the offices of concerned Circle Chiefs and Deputy Commissioners.
With thousands of land related cases in the courts of three hill districts remaining unresolved, land dispute has become a most complicated issue in the CHT.
Steps should be taken to make the Land Commission functional to resolve land disputes and it is a must for full execution of the Peace Accord. Meanwhile the posts of Chairman, Secretary and Registrar of the Commission are currently lying vacant.
During past BNP-led four-party alliance rule, the Land Ministry issued a directive to the Upazila Nirbahi Officers in CHT for preparation of necessary documents to give indigenous people ownership of the land that they have been cultivating for long. But it was later cancelled through an order from the CHT Affairs Ministry, sources said.
Former Land Commission Secretary Dipen Dewan, who was also a joint district judge, said he had completed preparations to recruit manpower for the Commission but it could not be done due to what he said non-cooperation of the then Chairman of the Commission.
Mr. Ushatan Talukder, a leading top leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS), said, “We submitted a proposal to the government for bringing reforms into the Land Commission to make it functional but to no effect.”
The State Minister for CHT Affairs Ministry, Mr. Dipankar Talukder said the government is aware of the problems and the steps to resolve issues are “under process”.
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