Socio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts - chtdf

HDRCSocio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts29In 7% of the paras, people of indigenous groups and Bangalees live together, where, in mostcases, Bangalees are majority in number. Among the mono-indigenous paras, Marma (28%)and Chakma (27%) paras are the majority, followed by Bawm and Mro (10%), Tripura (7%),Khumi and Tanchangya (5% each).3.4 Infrastructures and Institutions in Paras in CHTAround 80% of the paras in theCHT have earthen roads. Theparas in CHT are in lack ofpossessing metallic roads - only16% villages in CHT havemetallic roads. Half of the parasin CHT have NGO School. Onethirdof the paras have govt.primary school. Rarely a para inCHT has a high school. In parasof CHT there is not much numberof health service providers.Around one-fifth of the parashave satellite clinic. Aninsignificant number of parashave community clinics andUH&FWCs. Around a half of theparas have accessible privateforest. A one-third of the parashave reserve forest of mouza andaccessible river. A 9% of thevillages have hat/bazaar. Twothirdsof the villages have places of worship. It is to be noted that in spite of some variations,the overall trend of possessing the above infrastructures and institutions in the three districtsof CHT (Rangamati, Khagrachari, Bandarban) is similar.3.5 Distances between Major Infrastructures and Institutions from ParaDistances between some majorinfrastructures and institutions fromthe paras in CHT have been foundout in this baseline survey. Averagedistance between para and metallicroad in CHT is 4.5 km. UnionParishads and Upazila Parishads arerespectively 2.2 km. and 5.7 awayfrom the paras in CHT on average.The average distance between hat/bazaar and paras in CHT is about 7km. A district sadar is around 39km. from the paras, on average.UH& FWC is around five and a halfTable 3.1: Infrastructures and institution in paras of CHT (in %)Infrastructure andinstitutionAllCHTRangamatiKhagrachariBandarbanRoadsEarthen road 78.3 79.1 71.1 87.1Metallic road 16 13.4 20.5 12.9Education service providersGovt. primary school 34 31.3 39.8 29NGO School 56.6 50.7 65.1 51.6High School 2.8 3 2.4 3.2Health service providerCommunity Clinic 4.2 6 4.8 1.6Satellite Clinic 18.4 16.4 14.5 25.8UH&FWC 4.2 6 3.6 3.2Union Parishad 4.7 1.5 7.2 4.8ResourcesAccessible forest (reserve/ 9 10.4 6 11.3own by government)Accessible private forest 44.3 46.3 51.8 32.3Reserve forest of Mouza 15.6 11.9 12 24.2Other community land 33.5 29.9 53 11.3Accessible river (fishing, 31.6 34.3 24.1 38.7etc.)Hat/Bazar 9 9 8.4 9.7Telephone 3.3 3 1.2 6.5Post Office 3.3 1.5 2.4 6.5Place of worship 63.7 56.7 62.7 72.6Table 3.2: Distance between major infrastructures and institutions frompara (in km.)Infrastructure andinstitutionAllCHTRangamatiKhagrachariBandarbanMetallic road 4.5 6.9 2.4 4.5Union Parishad 2.2 2.1 2 2.6Upazila Parishad 5.7 5.2 7.3 4.2Hat/Bazar 6.8 10 4.4 6.4UH&FWC 5.4 4.4 6.1 5.6District Sadar 39 33 39 45Post Office 8 6.8 8 9.5Govt. primary school 1.4 1.5 1.3 1.3NGO School 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9High School 2.8 3.7 2.4 2.6Accessible forest (reserve/own by government) 2.2 0.3 3.5 2.4Accessible river (fishing,etc.) 2 2.6 1.2 2.5