Dhaka, March 17 -- The government agencies are not seemingly functioning properly as their development programme-implementation rate in the first eight months of the current financial year was the lowest in 14 years, officials said on Monday.

The annual development programme (ADP) execution rate from July to February of FY25 was 24.27 per cent, 6.91 percentage points lower compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year, the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) data shows.

Although there was a setback during last year's July-August uprising, the agencies have so far failed to improve their very poor implementation capacity, said a senior IMED official.

Last month, they implemented only 2.76 per cent of the A...