Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The pace of implementing the country's Annual Development Programme (ADP) has not recovered, with only 11.75 percent of the allocation spent in the first five months of the current fiscal year 2025-26.

The rate lags behind the implementation achieved during the same period of the previous fiscal year, which was marked by political turbulence.

Both the amount spent and the implementation rate in the first five months of the last fiscal year were higher than in the current period.

Expenditure on the ADP from July to November amounted to 11.75 percent of the total allocation, compared with 12.29 percent spent during the same period in the previous FY2024-25.

In the three fiscal years prior to that, the ADP implementatio...