ADP spending improves in first three months

The government agencies spent 8.74% of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) outlay during July-September period of the current financial year, according to the Planning Minister. In the same period of last fiscal year, they had spent 7% or Tk6,800 crore of the total original ADP outlay of Tk1tn. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, after the Ecnec meeting yesterday in Dhaka, said the government agencies spent Tk10,700 crore of the Tk1,23,345 crore ADP in the first three months of this fiscal year. The minister declined to gove more details about the ADP implementation status by the ministries and divisions. Different agencies of the government work for implementing development projects under the ADP every year. Meanwhile, the government agencies implemented only 0.56% of its total ADP outlay in the first month and 3.86% in first two months of the Tk1,23,345 crore ADP in the FY17. The government allocated Tk1,23,345 crore this fiscal for implementing some 1,365 projects.