The government implemented 95% of the annual development progarmme during the just concluded fiscal year 2013-14 although the year was battered by persistent political turmoil.
In the year which ended in June 30, an amount of Tk56,793 crore was spent against the total revised allocation of Tk60,000 crore.
The ADP implementation rate was one percentage points down from the previous fiscal year however and three percentage points higher than the FY2011-12.
In keeping with tradition, the implementation of ADP became faster in the final months of the fiscal year, making room for wastage of public money.
The government had spent 67% of the ADP in the first 11 months of last fiscal year and 60% in the first 10 months of the previous fiscal year.
Different ministries and division spent Tk38,000 crore or 98% of their total allocation of Tk38,800 from the government’s own exchequer, the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) data showed.
The data said the government agencies, however, spent Tk18,650 crore or 88% from the external resources (project aid) out of their Tk21,200 crore project aid outlay in the Tk60,000 crore ADP for the last fiscal.
Briefing reporters after ECNEC meeting yesterday, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said: “The implementation rate would have been better if the country had not faced political instability in the early months of the year.”
The implementation rate could be much better if the ministries and divisions could implement more donor-funded projects under the development budget, he said.
According to the IMED, 25 ministries and divisions including Power Division, Rural Development and Co-operative Division, Education, Housing and Public Works, Roads Division, and Agriculture Ministry are on the top of the chart with their 96% or more execution rates.
Seven ministries and divisions spent over 91% but less than 96% of their respective allocations in the ADP for the year.
