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ADP progress down 9pc

Rejaul Karim Byron
ADP implementation dropped 9.28 percent year-on-year in the first four months of the fiscal year owing to slow progress of foreign-aided projects.
Moreover, it is for the first time in six years that the annual development programme (ADP) implementation dropped from the same period of the previous year.
Between July and October, the government spent Tk 9,960 crore in ADP, which was only 15 percent of the total allocation of Tk 65,872 crore. The ADP implementation during the same period of fiscal 2012-13 wasTk 10,920 crore, which was 20 percent of the total allocation.
The implementation of government-funded projects, however, increased 0.97 percent, while foreign-aided projects plummeted 28.2 percent.
Zahid Hossain, lead economist of the World Bank's Dhaka office, said the implementation of development projects is slow due to the government's full attention on the impending national election.
A planning ministry official echoed the same: the projects which could sway the voters, such as the ones under the local government, are being pushed in place of the large infrastructure projects which could help the economy.
The local government division has spent 24 percent of its allocation in the first four months, the highest among the 10 biggest ministries and divisions, according to statistics from Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division.
The primary and mass education ministry has spent 26 percent and the education ministry 21 percent of their allocation. The official said the increased expenditures of the two ministries would help attract voters.
In contrast, the implementation of the other big ministries and divisions were unsatisfactory.
The bridges division, which got the third highest allocation in the ADP due to the Padma Bridge project, expended only 1.5 percent of its allocation.
The health ministry continued with its poor implementation from the last fiscal year: in the first four months it used up only 13 percent of its allotment.
The roads division implemented only 16 percent of its share, due to slow progress in many big projects like the Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane highway project.
The power division spent only 8 percent of its allocation, energy and mineral resources division 15 percent and housing and public works 5 percent.