Dhaka, Nov. 20 -- The sluggish pace of Bangladesh's Annual Development Programme (ADP) continues, with only around two percent of total allocations utilised in the first four months of the 2025-26 fiscal year.

From July to October, expenditure under the ADP reached 8.33 percent of the allocation, slightly higher than 7.90 percent in the same period of 2024-25, but still falling behind previous years.

By comparison, the ADP implementation rate in the first four months was 11.54 percent in FY2024, 12.64 percent the previous year, and 13.06 percent the year before, according to the latest data released Thursday by the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED).

In October alone, 3.23 percent of allocations were spent, margin...