Dhaka, June 23 -- Bangladesh's Annual Development Programme (ADP) implementation rate has plummeted to 49 percent in the first 11 months (July-May) of the current fiscal year - the lowest on record.
The government managed to spend only Tk1.11 lakh crore of the revised ADP allocation from July 2024 to May 2025, according to the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED).
This is a substantial decrease from Tk1. 46 lakh crore spent during the same period in the previous fiscal year, according to available monthly IMED data.
In the corresponding 11-month period of the last fiscal year, the ADP implementation rate stood at 57.54per cent, and in the 2022-23 fiscal year, it was 61.73percent.
Based on available records dating bac...