Dhaka, April 18 -- The implementation of the Annual Development Plan (ADP) for the first nine months of the current fiscal year has been recorded at 36.65 percent, the lowest rate in more than 15 years.

This figure compares unfavourably with the 42.30 percent achieved during the same period in the previous fiscal year.

In March alone, 6.78 percent of the revised ADP was implemented, according to the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) under the planning ministry.

Until February, the implementation rate of the original ADP stood at 24.27 percent.

Based on that, the 9-month rate was expected to hover around 30 percent.

But due to a reduction in the original allocation, the revised percentage appears slightly higher...