The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rangamati

The government has rehabilitated 450 landless families in different upazilas of Chittagong Hill Tracts under the 'Rehabilitation Project through Orange and Mixed Crop Cultivation Programme' at a cost of Taka 8.88 crore last financial year, officials said.

The rehabilitated families brought economic solvency for themselves by cultivating lands given to them by the government. Each of the families got 3.25 acres of land including a tin shed house.

Besides, they are enjoying different facilities including supply of safe drinking water, sanitary latrine, road communication, education, and community-based living under the project. The Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs funded Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board, a major development agency of the region to implement the project in three hill districts.