The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in the south-eastern piece of Bangladesh contains an aggregate zone of 5,093 sq. miles (13,189 sq. km.) including three slope regions: Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban. It imparts outskirts to Myanmar on the south and southeast, India on the north and upper east, and the Chittagong region of Bangladesh on the west. It is a standout amongst the most differing locales in the nation. Home to eleven indigenous ethnic gatherings, colectivelly known as the Jumma individuals, these indigenous gatherings are unmistakable from the lion's share Bengali individuals of Bangladesh in regard of race, dialect, culture, legacy, religion, political history, and economy. This ethnic and religious contrasts that different the Jumma individuals of whatever remains of the Bangladeshi populace has been a wellspring of lasting clash in the district. After a furnished clash that kept going over 20 years, the marking of the 1997 "CHT Accord" was regaded as the foundation of another time of serene concurrence between the tenants of the Chittagong Hills Tracts and Bangladesh.
The CHT Accord was marked with the mean to determine the CHT conglict and make ready for peace and advancement for indigenous people groups living in the district. The CHT Accord gave acknowledgment of CHT area as an ancestral occupied area, presenting an uncommon administration framework in view of an institutional structure shaped by the CHT Regional Councils and three Hill District Councils (HDCs), and transfering capabilities on general organization, lawfulness, police (neighborhood), land and land administration, advancement, instruction, wellbeing, condition and ranger services, neutralization of the locale, goals of land debate, recovery of returnee Jumma outcasts and inside dislodged people, and the setting up of a CHT Affairs Ministry at national level.
Not long after in the wake of marking of the Accord, the then Awami League government actualized arrangements including the establishment of laws following the CHT Accord. It made a major base for the usage of the CHT Accord, among them passing the CHT Regional Council Act and HDC Acts in Parliament, building up the CHT Affairs Ministry, repatriating Jumma exiles from the Indian State of Tripura and so on. Nonetheless, the principle issues of the conservation of status of the inborn possessed district, the presentation of unique administration framework in CHT with CHTRC and HDCs, the goals of land debate, and the disarmament of the locale are yet to be executed.
