The Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board is a government agency established in 1978 by the then President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman in response to the rise of the Shanti Bahini insurgency in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Eastern Bangladesh.

[1] Headed by an army general, the board was formed to provide special attention and administer the issues of the Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict.

[2] The first chairman from civil administration is Bir Bahadur Ushwi Sing, an MP of the Bangladesh Parliament who was elected from Bandarban constituency and the current State Minister, Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs.

Later in 2002, Wadud Bhuiyan, the former member of the parliament from Khagrachari constituency, was appointed as chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board.

[3] Afterwards, Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura was the chairman of the board in 2013 and served till 2021.