<h1>Chakma and Hajong Communities&nbsp;</h1> <img src="https://sunyaias-resources.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/content/7a482288-39be-11ec-9131-6f593b45e617.png"><h2> </h2><h2>Context:</h2> <ul><li>The Arunachal Pradesh government has recently decided to relocate the Chakmas and the Hajongs, who trace their roots to Bangladesh.</li></ul> <h2>About:</h2> <ul><li>Chakmas and Hajongs were originally residents of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in erstwhile East Pakistan. They left their homeland when it was submerged by the Kaptai dam project in the 1960s </li></ul> <ul><li>The Chakmas, who are Buddhists, and the Hajongs, who are Hindus, also allegedly faced religious persecution and entered India through the then Lushai Hills district of Assam (now Mizoram).</li></ul> <ul><li> The Centre moved the majority of them to the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), which is now Arunachal Pradesh</li></ul> <ul><li>At present, they don’t have citizenship and land rights but are provided basic amenities by the state government</li></ul>