Economic Reporter :
Implementation of the annual development programme remained dismal during the first eight months of the current fiscal year due mainly to poor performance of different ministries and divisions, sources said.
According to data of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the planning ministry, 56 development budget implementing ministries and divisions could spend only 36.91 per cent or Tk 45,532 crore of the total ADP outlay of Tk 1,23,346 crore in July-February of the FY 2016-2017.
The total ADP outlay, however, was downsized to Tk 1,19,296 crore in February because of the failure of the agencies in spending for implementation of the development projects, especially the foreign funded ones.
IMED officials said although the rate of ADP implementation in July-February this fiscal was 4 percentage points or Tk 10,857 crore higher compared with that of the same period of the last FY 2015-2016, the 39 per cent spending in eight months was not acceptable.
The implementation rate was 38 per cent in FY2015, 36 per cent in FY2014 and 44 per cent in FY2013.
They said that like the previous few years, ministries and divisions would rush to implement more than half of the allocation of ADP in next four months affecting the quality of works.
They said that the performance of the biggest ministries in terms of the allocations they got under the ADP was very dismal.
Implementation of the annual development programme remained dismal during the first eight months of the current fiscal year due mainly to poor performance of different ministries and divisions, sources said.
According to data of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the planning ministry, 56 development budget implementing ministries and divisions could spend only 36.91 per cent or Tk 45,532 crore of the total ADP outlay of Tk 1,23,346 crore in July-February of the FY 2016-2017.
The total ADP outlay, however, was downsized to Tk 1,19,296 crore in February because of the failure of the agencies in spending for implementation of the development projects, especially the foreign funded ones.
IMED officials said although the rate of ADP implementation in July-February this fiscal was 4 percentage points or Tk 10,857 crore higher compared with that of the same period of the last FY 2015-2016, the 39 per cent spending in eight months was not acceptable.
The implementation rate was 38 per cent in FY2015, 36 per cent in FY2014 and 44 per cent in FY2013.
They said that like the previous few years, ministries and divisions would rush to implement more than half of the allocation of ADP in next four months affecting the quality of works.
They said that the performance of the biggest ministries in terms of the allocations they got under the ADP was very dismal.
