Hill Voice, 20 January 2025, Dhaka: The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord Implementation and Monitoring Committee has been reconstituted in accordance with Section 3 of Part ‘A’ of the CHT Accord signed in 1997. This committee has been reconstituted through a gazette notification signed by Mohammad Nahid Islam, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of CHT Affairs, on 12 January 2025.

Md. Touhid Hossain, the foreign affairs advisor of the Interim Government, has been appointed as the convener of the committee. The other two ex-officio members of the three-member Accord Implementation and Monitoring Committee are Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, president of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS), and Sudatta Chakma, chairman of the Task Force on the Rehabilitation of India-returnee Tribal Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.

It is to be noted that the scope of work of the CHT Accord Implementation and Monitoring Committee are– To monitor and supervise the implementation process of the CHT Accord; To coordinate the activities of all ministries and departments including all subordinate government, semi-government, autonomous organizations and authorities related to the implementation process of this Accord, and to provide necessary advice/instructions; To take necessary measures to resolve problems related to the implementation of this Accord and to provide recommendations to the government if necessary; To supervise activities related to the repatriation and rehabilitation of refugees; To supervise activities related to the rehabilitation of internally displaced persons.

This gazette notification states that all ministries/departments will comply with the decisions and instructions of the Accord Implementation Committee and will take necessary measures accordingly.