Dhaka, March 26 -- A relatively fat development budget worth Tk 2.30 trillion is likely to be prepared for the next fiscal year, too, by the interim government notwithstanding a staggeringly low execution of the outgoing ADP.

By official count, only a fourth of the total annual development programme or ADP for the fiscal year 2024-25 had been implemented in eight months to this February. Also, its size underwent a significant pruning.

The size of the ADP in the upcoming financial year may set at Tk 2.30 trillion to meet fund demands made by different ministries and divisions, finance ministry officials said.

However, the finance officials find the new ADP outsized compared to the implementation capacity of the ministries and presume th...