Dhaka, Feb. 8 -- Prolonged and corrupt processes of land valuation and acquisition and duplication of feasibility study on similar projects proved ploys for misuse of public funds during the past regime, a government-formed taskforce reports.

Some government agencies conducted feasibility studies on the same project by spending public funds, which is one of the reasons behind the misuse of the development funds too, it says about one instance of what went wrong on development front during the government of unseated premier Sheikh Hasina.

The taskforce, one of the panels formed by the current interim government under a massive reform recipe, has observed that government offices and agencies were involved in valuation of land prices at ja...