Jafor Ahmed Khan, deputy secretary of Department of Planning, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), said income of both men and women in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) has increased now due to the economic boom.

He said this at a seminar titled "Economic census report-2013 district report publication" at the conference room of Rangamati deputy commissioner's office in the town.

The district administration and district statistics office organised the programme chaired by Deputy Additional Commissioner Abu Sayed Chowdhury. 

Earlier, it took a long time to collect data in CHT, but now the same work is done easily with the help of the latest technology, said Jafor.

Sources at the statistics office said in 2003, earning of women was 15.78 percent while it was 84.21 percent for men.