Dhaka, Dec. 12 -- The allocations for health, education, and social protection - the key pillars of human-capital development - have been sharply reduced, by as much as 63 per cent, in the Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year.

Amid an extensive downward revision, driven by constrained fiscal space and slow project execution, a handful of sectors, including science and ICT, general public services, and defence, are set to receive higher allocations, Planning Commission officials say.

They say the Programming Division circulated project-wise allocations of the proposed RADP among the commission's divisions on Tuesday for review.

Economists say while rationalisation was expected due to revenue constraint...