Dhaka, May 19 -- The highest economic policy-making body of the Bangladeshi government has approved a 2.3 trillion taka (nearly 19 billion U.S. dollars) Annual Development Program (ADP) for the next fiscal year 2025-26 (July 2025-June 2026).
The amount is 6.58 percent higher than that of the revised ADP of the current fiscal year 2024-25 (June 2024-July 2025).
The new ADP was approved at a National Economic Council (NEC) meeting presided over by the Bangladeshi interim government's Chief Advisor and NEC Chairperson Muhammad Yunus on Sunday.
After the meeting, Bangladeshi Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud told journalists that out of the ADP outlay of 2.3 trillion taka for the next fiscal year, 1.44 trillion taka will come from local sou...