Dhaka, Sept. 21 -- It is unfortunate, to say that at least 17 ministries could not spend even one per cent of the allocation from the budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 in July and August. The foreign, youth and sports, and home ministry's Public Security Division could not spend anything at all. A media report, quoting the latest data of the IMED, said some Tk 18.78 billion has been allocated for 30 projects of these ministries and departments.

Since the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) of the planning ministry lambasts that a lack of good governance is undermining the potential of public infrastructure projects (PIPs), there is no scope to term these failures as the propaganda of the oppositions or the cooked s...