Dhaka, April 16 -- The government agencies implemented only about 42 per cent of the revised development projects in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year (FY) which is the lowest in more than a decade, officials said on Thursday.

They said the overall implementation rate this year deteriorated due to the health ministry's incapability to implement projects.

The ministry, holding 5th largest development budget this FY, could implement only about 21 per cent of its Annual Development Programme (ADP) during the July-March period of FY2020-21.

According to the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) report, all the government ministries and agencies executed 41.92 per cent of the ADP, 3.16 percentage points ...