The timeframe for the project from beginning to completion in from 2003 to 2013 The detailed development situation of CHT falls outside the purview of this study, but the picture is a near-reflection of Bangladesh’s development pattern. However, a socio-economic baseline survey of CHT commissioned by EU, and prepared by the Dhaka-based research institution the Human Development Research Centre (HDRC) in early 2009, will provide succinct idea of the state of economic and human development in CHT vis-a’-vis the national situation. The average annual net income a rural household in the region, irrespective of ethnictities, in approximately Tk 65, 852, while in the rest of rural Bangladesh (at current price of January 2008) it is about 1.28 time higjher. The overall uneven development in one socio-economic indicator between the major segment of the population of the region and the rest of the country is reflected within CHT itself