Implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) progressed well in the first four months of current fiscal, witnessing a 4.73 percent growth in October despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
Planning Commission officials said the progress made in implementation of ADP is good during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to a report of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Ministry of Planning, the implementation of ADP was 4.17 percent in September, 2.38 percent in August and 1.52 in July respectively in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-21.
All ministries, along with divisions and agencies managed to spend only 12.79 percent of Tk 2.14 trillion Annual Development Programme (ADP) outlay in the first four months of the FY 2020-21.
In the same period of the previous fiscal year, the government ministries and agencies spent 14.25 percent of the ADP outlay, the IMED data.
It was 13.75 percent in FY19, 14.51 percent in FY 18 and 13.60 percent in FY 17 respectively.
According to sources, the government is implementing ADP of Tk 2,14,611 crore in the current fiscal.
Of this, Tk 1,34,643 crore is being spent from government funds, Tk 70,502 crore from foreign aid and Tk 9,466 crore from implementing agencies' own funds.
A Planning Commission official said the demand for work usually increases in the country during the dry season.
In addition, ministries, agencies and departments have completed work plans and the work order is almost final, he said adding that, it is hoped that the pace of work will increase further in the coming months.
Pradip Ranjan Chakraborty, Secretary of the IMED, said some days before, in the first two months of the current fiscal year, the ADP work could not perform well due to virus pandemic.
After that, the implementation of development works has been increasing as the planning minister gave a letter to each ministry and department to expedite the works, he informed.
Chakraborty expects, “The development works will increase further in upcoming months.”
However, the health services division and the railway ministry have performed the poor during July-October as both had spent only 8.07 percent and 8.95 percent of their total allocations respectively.
Besides, the science and technology ministry, housing and public works ministry, and the bridges division have also not performed well.
The science and technology ministry spent 10.28 percent, housing and public works ministry 10.11 percent, and the Bridges Division 11.68 percent of their total outlay in the last fiscal, according the IMED report.
However, the Primary and Mass Education ministry, the Secondary and Higher Education Division and the Power Division had performed better in July-October period.
They executed 25.15 percent, 20.70 percent and 16.69 percent of their allocations respectively.
Under the ongoing ADP, the government is implementing some 1,673 projects.
