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Download PDF The planning ministry has sent the chief adviser’s special directives to other ministries suggesting quick implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) as only 16 percent has been implemented in five months of the current fiscal year (FY).
Of the Tk 26,500 crore ADP for FY 08, only Tk 4,168 crore was spent during July-November.
The planning ministry data show Tk 2,542 crore or 15 percent of the ADP’s local component was spent, while the spending was Tk 1,626 crore or 17 percent of its foreign component that comes in the form of project aid.
In FY 07, Tk 5,200 crore or 20 percent of the ADP was spent in first five months.
“We have sent the chief adviser’s directives for quick implementation of the ADP in rest of the fiscal year,” said a high official of the planning ministry.
“In the directive, the chief adviser has asked all ministries to give full attention to implementing development programmes and take it as a slogan — implementation, implementation and implementation,” the official said quoting from the directive.
After a review meeting on ADP implementation, Finance Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam yesterday said the rate of ADP implementation is not satisfactory.
“But I’ve been assured by officials of different ministries that implementation rate will get a fast pace after January as most of the projects are now in the tendering process,” he added.
“By January 31, the tendering process of the projects, except a few ones, will be completed.”
The planning ministry data on ADP implementation by different ministries, from July-October, 2007 show a frustrating picture of some ministries, which got the major stakes of the fund.
Of the 45 ministries and divisions, ADP implementation by 28 ministries was in between 0-10 percent, while Rural Development and Cooperative Division spent the highest 38 percent.
The other ministries’ implementation rate was below 20 percent in the first four months of the fiscal year.
Power Division, which got Tk 3,778 crore for development projects in the current budget, spent Tk 351 crore or 9 percent in the first four months.
“It’s a frustrating picture that we couldn’t spend the money when the country is witnessing an acute power crisis,” says a planning ministry official.
The post and telecommunication ministry spent 4 percent of its allocation, Energy Division only 2 percent, education ministry 12 percent, primary and mass education ministry 16 percent, health ministry 14 percent, communications ministry 7 percent, local government division 18 percent, water resources ministry only 3 percent, and agriculture ministry 18 percent of the allocation.
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