Hon’ble Chairman of CHT Development Board Mr. Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura inaugurated a program to distribute vegetable seeds and agricultural inputs among 6,000 helpless farmers and indigent families in three hill districts on the initiative of CHT Development Board.
After the inauguration on Monday (22 June), the chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board handed over the materials to the neighborhood workers at the board’s head office in Rangamati.
Chairman Nab Bikram Kishore Tripura said in the inauguration program, “The CHT Development Board would provide vegetable seeds and agricultural implements to 6,000 families in three hill districts through 4,300 neighborhood centers and neighborhood workers under the project of providing sustainable social services to people living in remote areas with limited funding.”
“Each family of 6,000 will be given improved varieties of bitter gourd, kidney vetch, gourd, eggplant, and cowpeas seeds along with a spade and an agricultural knife,” He added.
CHTDB Chairman also announced, on the occasion of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Development Board has undertaken a program to plant a total of 1,07,500 saplings in each of the 4300 Para Kendra (neighborhood centers) of the three hill districts on July 15, 2020. Each Para Kendra will plant 25 saplings.
Types of 25 trees are – Blackberry, Grapefruit, Bell, Amalaki, Neem, Haritaki, Bahera, Tamarind, and Arjun.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board’s tree planting program was inaugurated with planting 1 Jakaranda tree sapling on the same day (22 June).
Vice-Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board. Nurul Alam Nizami (Additional Secretary), Member Secretary and Member Administration Ashish Kumar Barua (Joint Secretary), Member Planning. Prakash Kanti Chowdhury (Deputy Secretary), Member-Implementation Mohammad Harun-ur-Rashid (Deputy Secretary), Director of the Sustainable Social Services Project. Jane Alam, director of the orange and mixed crop cultivation project. Shafiqul Islam and the board’s executive engineer Mujibul Alam and others were present at the time of distribution inauguration program.
