Dhaka, Sept. 24 -- The performance of government ministries and agencies in project execution was below the mark in the first two months of the current fiscal compared to the same period last year, officials said on Wednesday.

The public bodies implemented 3.89 per cent of Annual Development Programme (ADP) during July-August period of the fiscal year 2020-21, a 0.59 percentage points lower than the corresponding period of last fiscal.

The Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) data showed the ministries and agencies spent Tk 83.51 billion of the total Tk 2.14 trillion ADP outlay during the period.

During the same period of FY2020, the government agencies spent Tk 96.26 billion, 4.48 per cent of the total Tk 2.15 tril...