Ministry demanded for indigenous people
Speakers at a workshop held here yesterday demanded of the government for setting up a separate ministry for indigenous people of plain lands to uphold their rights.
Held at CARITAS auditorium here, the workshop titled, 'Plain Land Indigenous Peoples' Rights and PRSP: Strategic Advocacy,' was organized by the Centre for Indigenous People's Research and Development (CIPRAD), an NGO, working to uphold rights of indigenous people.
Tribal Welfare Association (TWA) chairman Advocate Promod Mankin presided.
Speakers said indigenous people of plain land outnumbered their brothers in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) by four times. Still then the people of CHT are enjoying more facilities than indigenous people of plain land, they said. The government should take steps to set up a separate ministry titled, 'Ministry for Plain Land Adivasis,' for upholding their rights, speakers said.
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