With the aim of utilising the potential of Kaptai Lake to improve the fate of the people of the Chattogram Hill Tracts, foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain and CHT affairs adviser Supradip Chakma exchanged views with officials concerned in Rangamati Friday afternoon.
The two advisers visited Kaptai Lake by riding a speedboat from Bargee Lake Valley in Rangamati via Shuvolong Waterfall, Shuvolong Bazar to Stadium Ghat in Rangamati town, said a press release.
Spouses of the advisers, Rangamati district council chairman Kajal Talukder, CHT ministry鈥檚 joint secretary Konkan Chakma, Rangamati deputy commissioner, superintendent of police, and other officials were present.
Touhid Hossain said that the beauty of Rangamati lied in its hills and Kaptai Lake, mentioning that the lake can play a vital role in the socio-economic development of the people in the hilly region.
He emphasised that Kaptai Lake should be developed for fish farming to ensure that those living along its banks are not deprived of its benefits.
鈥榃e should utilize the immense potential of Kaptai Lake as the lake is a valuable resource, like gold, which will help change the fate of the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts,鈥� said Supradip Chakma.
He also said that the government was working to protect the rights of all communities and build a non-communal Bangladesh. 鈥楾he country is moving forward with the determination to build a self-respecting Bangladesh by uniting the hilly and Bengali people in the bond of harmony.鈥�
Supradip Chakma said that the current government had opened all doors for development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The hill people were lagging behind in the development of the agricultural sector, which needed to be changed.
鈥榃e don鈥檛 want to be left behind anymore. We want to be connected to the mainstream of the country,鈥� he added.