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Package of Benefits for the Refugees/Returnees of Chittagong Hill Tracts

CHT

CHT Background

Rangamati

1. According to the Constitution of Bangladesh and Rules made thereunder, the state guarantees the safety of life and property of all the returnees and their family members.

Khagra Chari

Bandarban

2. Every family will be paid a cash grant of Taka 15,000.00 (US $ 335)

Jumma Network

3. Every family will be provided free ration at the following rates of entitlement: Adult member/5 kilogram of soybean oil, 4 kg. of lentils, 2kg. of salt. 

Massacres

Genocides

4. Corrugated sheets worth 2 bundles/per family 

Abduction & Rapes

5. Taka 8,000.00 per family of cash transfers for those families owning arable land and a pair of bullock for tilling the land. 

Religious Persecution

Jumma Refugees

6. The landless will be provided with land grant and a cash transfer to Taka 3,000.00 per family. 

Refugees Rehabilition

7. Debt. forgiveness of up to Taka 5,000.00 per family in respect of agricultural loans. 

Bengali Settlers

8. Similar loan forgiveness would be considered, on a case by case basis, for non-agricultural loans.

Military Resistance

UNPO Documents

9. Loans taken in the past from the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board Would be written off. 

EU Declaration

Human Rights

10. General Amnesty for the insurgents announced earlier shall remain in force. This amnesty shall be applicable in respect of cases registered during the state of emergency (when insurgency was on).

Peace Conference

JUMNPNA

11.Land will be returned to their original owners and they will not be rehabilitated in the cluster villages. 

Peace Treaty

Amnesty International

12.Arrangements would be made for holding special examinations for High School and College Diplomas for those who had studied in neighboring countries. 

Forign Aid

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13. Create opportunities for the returnee students in schools in order that they could complete their courses of studies. 

14. According priority to the tribal youth in recruitment's for vacant positions in different offices of the districts and elsewhere. 

15. A general amnesty for those convicted in different criminal cases during insurgency. 

16. All returnee ‘Headmen’ (of village councils) to be reinstated in their previous positions. 

17. Preferential treatment for the tribal people in all walks of life.

18. Almost all refugees have returned by now and the rehabilitation operation is in full swing. The Prime Minister is supervising it herself. An allocation of US $ 36.00 million have been amide to meet the initial requirements of rehabilitating 43,000 refugees.

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19. The following short term projects are now under implementation (total investment of around $ 65 million)

A. Reconstruction of old physical infrastructures

B. Production and Employment Generating Activities: repair of village roads, construction of newroads, tree plantation, etc., food for works programme
 
C. Microcredit, through Bangladesh Rural Development Board

20. In addition a portfolio of medium and long term development projects are under preparation in the different ministries of the government in general and Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Ministry in particular. Major aid donors and multilateral development agencies like the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the UNDP, Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN etc. have shown keen interest in funding these projects. A major thrust in tourism development is also planned. It is expected that very soon this area would be the hub of unprecedented development activities.

21. And all in this has been made possible by just one person- Sheikh Hasina, the incorrigible democrat and visionary Prime Minister of Bangladesh

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