Abstract
This chapter addresses the following questions: What are the organizational gaps in achieving the SDGs indicators in the hilly ethnic groups, and how are they looking forward to sustainable development? This chapter also shows the organizational structure and its challenges concerning coping with SDGs and unfolding the links within ministries in Bangladesh. The Sustainable Development Goals are a burning issue worldwide, and they have significant consequences on economic growth as well as on public administration, either sound or immoral management. The Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs (MoCHTA) is mandated to ameliorate and ensure social safety and security in the life settings of the different ethnic people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) area after signing an accord on 2nd December 1997. Methodologically, it is a neoliberalism study, and the authors conducted this chapter based on secondary data analyzed and reviewed, such as Ministry's APA, Citizen Charter, project or development activities, reports, and interviews with senior bureaucrats and ethnic leaders.
TopSalient Features Of The Mochta
The Ministry got one secretariat, a Minster from a hilly area, and ethnic groups led. The secretariat consists of different wings and branches. Under this Ministry have some affiliated offices such as —
Key Terms in this Chapter
Ethnic Groups: There have fifty Ethnic groups, according to the Government of Bangladesh. Among those, eleven ethnic groups are living in the CHT area. The ethnic communities are Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Tanchangya, Lusai, Pankho, Bawm, Mro, Khyang, Khumi, and Chak.
Development: When the community feels the positive change to smooth their life without making their traditions devasted is called Development in the Santal community.
CHT Area: This belongs to the three districts of Bangladesh as peninsular like Bandarban, Rangamati, and Khagrachari. There is a debate about their territorial land, culture, and political rule.
Sustainable: Whatever we have in the Text regarding the meaning of Sustainable, we understand that it is the nurturing of nature based on community-based guidelines. So, the Santal community says they have Customary law to protect nature with love and humanity, called Sustainability.