Dhaka, March 12 -- The National Economic Council (NEC) has approved a Tk 2.45 trillion Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year (FY24) prioritising sectors like road transport, communication, energy and power.

The approved RADP is Tk 180 billion or 6.84 per cent lower than the original ADP size of Tk 263 trillion for the current fiscal.

The approval came from a meeting of the NEC held today with its chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the NEC Conference Room in the city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Tuesday, BSS reports.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Planning Division Senior Secretary Satyajit Karmakar said that out of the total revised RADP outlay of Tk 2.45 trillion, Tk ...