ADP implementation rate in July notches 2 percent
Dhaka, Sep 7 (UNB) - Implementation rate of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the first month of the current fiscal year is barely 2 percent, similar to July last year.
According to Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) report, Tk 836 crore were utilized during the month when the exchequer has released Tk 2,129 crore. Tk 482 crore was spent in July last year.
The size of ADP during the current fiscal year is Tk 38,500 crore.
Talking to UNB correspondent Golam Moin Uddin, former caretaker government adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam said that the implementation rate in July could have been much better as the big Ministries are now under the Medium Term Budgetary Framework (MTBF) and they know about their allotments.
He said that due to bureaucratic tangles, tender specification and evaluation are not done in time resulting in delay of implementation work.
The former adviser emphasized on taking advance preparations by the government for making maximum utilization of the development projects.
Citing lack of commitments and competence in the administration, the former adviser stressed the need for a consensus between country’s two big political parties that the administration will not be
politicized. “This will not happen in one day, it is a long-term issue,” he observed.
Mirza Aziz also said that the recruitment in the administration should be based on competence while career development should be based on merit.
He, however, said that the ADP implementation would cross Tk 30,000 crore during the current fiscal. The implementation capacity of the government increases when it adopts a big size of ADP.
The top ten ministries, according to implementation status, are Local Government Division (5 percent), Power Division (1 percent), Health and Family Welfare Ministry (5 percent), Roads and Railways Division (0.03 percent), Primary and Mass Education Ministry (4 percent), Planning Division (1 percent), Ministry of Education (0.46 percent), Ministry of Water Resources (0 percent), Bridges Division (0.41 percent) and Ministry of Agriculture (0 percent).
Meanwhile, the implementation status of other Ministries and Divisions are Ministry of Land (8 percent), PMO (2 percent), Industries Ministry (1 percent), Energy and Mineral Resources
Division (2 percent), Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry (2 percent), Labour and Employment Ministry (3 percent), Women and Children Affairs Ministry (1 percent), Finance Division (2 percent), Fisheries and Livestock Ministry (1 percent), Environment and Forest Ministry (2 percent).
Some Tk 25,902 crore was spent in the 2009-10 fiscal out of the Tk 28,500 crore revised ADP, achieving a 91 percent implementation rate.
The implementation rate for the last fiscal is five percent higher than the 2008-09 fiscal (86 percent), according to sources at the IMED.
According to Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) report, Tk 836 crore were utilized during the month when the exchequer has released Tk 2,129 crore. Tk 482 crore was spent in July last year.
The size of ADP during the current fiscal year is Tk 38,500 crore.
Talking to UNB correspondent Golam Moin Uddin, former caretaker government adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam said that the implementation rate in July could have been much better as the big Ministries are now under the Medium Term Budgetary Framework (MTBF) and they know about their allotments.
He said that due to bureaucratic tangles, tender specification and evaluation are not done in time resulting in delay of implementation work.
The former adviser emphasized on taking advance preparations by the government for making maximum utilization of the development projects.
Citing lack of commitments and competence in the administration, the former adviser stressed the need for a consensus between country’s two big political parties that the administration will not be
politicized. “This will not happen in one day, it is a long-term issue,” he observed.
Mirza Aziz also said that the recruitment in the administration should be based on competence while career development should be based on merit.
He, however, said that the ADP implementation would cross Tk 30,000 crore during the current fiscal. The implementation capacity of the government increases when it adopts a big size of ADP.
The top ten ministries, according to implementation status, are Local Government Division (5 percent), Power Division (1 percent), Health and Family Welfare Ministry (5 percent), Roads and Railways Division (0.03 percent), Primary and Mass Education Ministry (4 percent), Planning Division (1 percent), Ministry of Education (0.46 percent), Ministry of Water Resources (0 percent), Bridges Division (0.41 percent) and Ministry of Agriculture (0 percent).
Meanwhile, the implementation status of other Ministries and Divisions are Ministry of Land (8 percent), PMO (2 percent), Industries Ministry (1 percent), Energy and Mineral Resources
Division (2 percent), Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry (2 percent), Labour and Employment Ministry (3 percent), Women and Children Affairs Ministry (1 percent), Finance Division (2 percent), Fisheries and Livestock Ministry (1 percent), Environment and Forest Ministry (2 percent).
Some Tk 25,902 crore was spent in the 2009-10 fiscal out of the Tk 28,500 crore revised ADP, achieving a 91 percent implementation rate.
The implementation rate for the last fiscal is five percent higher than the 2008-09 fiscal (86 percent), according to sources at the IMED.
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