Signboards pop up in farmland around the Payra Port claiming ownership of land, buy purchase. Public, private companies and the affluent are buying land there to set up power plants, refineries, garment factories and other industries.
Around 300 indigenous families fear that they would lose their Jhum land as a special tourism zone is going to be established in Alutila of Khagrachhari.
The Khagrachhari district administration has recently proposed acquiring 699.98 acres of land in three mouzas under Sadar and Matiranga upazilas after Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) made a decision to set up the zone to promote tourism.
The Daily Star obtained a copy of a letter that said the district administration had sent a detailed report on the proposed land to the BEZA.
Of the proposed land, 604 acres of land are in Alutila mouza and Toikatang mouza under Matiranga upazila, while 95.98 acres of land are in Golabari mouza under Khagrachhari Sadar upazila.
Most of it are Jhum land, on which indigenous families livelihood depend.
Of the 300 families, most are from Tripura community, while the rest are from Chakma and Marma communities. They live in 10 villages of Alutila, Taikatang and Golabari mouzas, locals say.
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