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Implementation of ADP

High priority projects go at a snail's pace

By Inam Ahmed and Monjur Mahmud
A Planning Ministry review has revealed that the progress of implementation of projects earmarked as high-priority ones in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) is in fact below the national average, defeating the objective of dubbing them so.
As a result, the ministry observed. the goal of marking them high- priority has not been achieved. resulting in slow implementation of development programmes.
It further said that the desired rate of implementation of some 62 high-priority projects in the current ADP could not be achieved till September. FY 2000. which was even less than the national average of 11 per cent during the period.
The 62 projects involve Tk 5699 crore.
Against this backdrop, the ministry has decided that a special drive will be made to implement such projects so that the departments concerned do not hurry at the end of the year for release of funds.
It noted that although monthly review meetings are important for ministries to implement projects, four ministries and departments did not hold any monthly review meeting during the July-September period of the current fiscal year. Ten ministries and departments did not hold two meetings and nine did not hold one meeting.
Only 25 ministries and departments held regular
monthly review meetings duping the period.
A total of 1.293 projects are included in the ADP for FY 2000, of which 1.097 are spillover projects of the previous year and 196 are new projects.
Of the total allocation of Tk 15.500 crore for the current ADP. Tk 9.074 crore came from the domestic resources and Tk 6,426 crore from project aid.
The Planning Ministry decided that the ministries and the departments which could not achieve the target during the first quarter would now lake steps to achieve their respective goals during the rest of the year.
The ministries and departments must take initiatives to improve the implementation process and utilise the total project aid.
Funds may be transferred to the projects that have chances ol speedy implementation from the ones with slow pace, it said.
Every ministry and department must ensure effective empowerment of the project directors. (he ministry added.