ADP implementation hits 4-year low in Q1

The implementation of Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the first quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal is lower than what was witnessed in the last four financial years.

The execution rate was 5.31 per cent in the first quarter of July-September period of the current Fiscal Year 2021-22.

However, the performance rate was 8.06 per cent in the corresponding period of the last fiscal, according to the progress report of the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Planning Commission.

“The ADP execution rate in Q1 (First Quarter) always remains low. Its implementation gathers pace in the second quarter (Q2) of any fiscal year,” Pradip Ranjan Chakravarty, secretary to the IMED, told The Business Post.

“Currently, we are doing some paper works. The major work for carrying out ADP will start in full swing from the second quarter of this fiscal.”

The achievement rate was higher in Q1 of the last two fiscal years even amid the countrywide shutdown during the pandemic, suggested the secretary.

The IMED has sent letters to all ministries and divisions to speed up the implementation process after September.

The execution rate of annual development programme was 8.06 per cent in Fiscal Year 2019-20 when coronavirus hit the country. The rate was 8.25 per cent and 10.21 per cent in the first quarters of FY19 and FY18 respectively, according to the IMED report.

The government spent Tk 12,566.30 crore in the current fiscal out of Tk 2,36,793 crore for ADP projects. A total of 1,591 projects were included in the ADP.

In FY21, the ADP accomplishment rate was 82.21 per cent expending Tk 1,72,051 crore out of Tk 2,09,272 crore budgeted for ADP projects. A total of 1,946 projects were added on to the development programme. In the programmes, the government gave more importance to health sector considering the coronavirus situation.

However, the IMED found that the priority sector – Health Service Division – has spent only Tk 170.16 crore or 1.31 per cent out of its allocation of Tk 13,000.19 crore in the current fiscal.

The allocation for the Department of Health Education and Family Welfare was Tk 2,558.3 ​​crore, of which Tk 158 crore or 6.18 per cent has been spent in Q1 against 14 projects.

A total of Tk 33,901 crore has been allocated for discharging 214 projects under the Local Government Division.

The LGD has spent Tk 2532.84 crore or 7.47 per cent in the first quarter.

However, the Ministry of Industries was the top ADP performer as it spent 19.89 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal.