Chakma Tribe

Chakma Tribe

News: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Deputy Commissioner of Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district to submit an action-taken report (ATR) on a complaint alleging harassment and false prosecution of some Chakma villagers.

About:
• The Chakma people are a tribal group from the eastern- most regions of the Indian subcontinent.
• They are the largest ethnic group in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of southeastern Bangladesh, and the second-largest in Mizoram, India (Chakma Autonomous District).
• Other places in Northeast India also have significant Chakma populations.
• Around 60,000 Chakma people live in Arunachal Pradesh, India; a first generation migrated there in 1964 after the Kaptai Dam tragedy.
• Another 79,000 Chakmas live in Tripura, India, and 20,000-30,000 in Assam, India.