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Local govt gets top ADP priority

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and Tk 14,135 crore internal resource or 46.34 percent.
In the revised ADP this year, dependence on foreign aid was high, and it has come down in the next ADP. Foreign resources totalled 56.47 percent in the revised ADP.
The highest allocation in the next ADP goes to Local Government Division— Tk 6,486 crore or 21 per c6nt of the total ADP funds, next comes Power Division with Tk 3,233 crore or 10.27 percent, health ministry got Tk 3,063 crore or 10.05 per cent, communications ministry Tk 2,889 crore or 9.47 percent, primary and mass education ministry Tk 2,828 crore or 9.27 per cent, education ministry Tk 947 crore or 3.11 per cent, agriculture ministry Tk 860 crore or 2.82 per cent, and Energy and Mineral Resources Division Tk683 crore or 2.24 per cent.
In the next ADR allocations for power and agriculture sectors increased minimally over those in the revised ADP this year. Power Division got 11 percent increase, and agriculture ministry eight per cent.
The Local Government Division got 38 per cent higher allocation, primary and mass
education ministry 33 per cent and health and communications ministries 22 percent.
To address regional disparity, additional allocation has been made for different projects in Rajshahi, Khulna and Barisal divisions. Rajshahi Division got Tk 1,268 crore, which is 4.15 percent of the total ADP allocation , Khulna got Tk 1,^63 crore or 3.18' per cent and Barisal Tk 1,019 crore or 3.34 percent
For empowerment of women and bringing about gender parity,Tk 4,23 crore has been allocated in the new ADP . The projects for this include those for development of women and children with no asset, district-wise women computer training centres, city-based distressed women development programme, rural employment and road maintenance programme, nursing institute etc.
In the ICT sector, Tk 544
crore has been allocated in the new ADR compared to Tk 294 crore in the revised ADP.
The next ADP has set aside Tk 660 crore for special development sector. However, no । separate allocation has been made for 39 ultra-poor areas The last caretaker government kept Tk 40 crore in the current ADP for the purpose.
Of the total ADP allocation for next FY, 57 per cent is for poverty alleviation purposes, the planning ministry said in a report.
The number of projects in the next ADP is 886. Of this, 851 are carried over to the next FY from the current FY, and 35 projects are new.
Besides, 487 unapproved new projects in the list of next ADP got no allocation. However, Tk 1841 crore has been set aside for these projects, and the amount will be , allocated after the projects get approval.