The implementation rate of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the last fiscal year (2017-’18) hit the record 93.71 percent with an expenditure of Tk 147,703 crore against 87 percent in the 2016-’17 fiscal year.
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal came up with the disclosure on Tuesday while briefing reporters about the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) in the city.
“The ADP implementation reached the country’s ever highest rate of 93.71 percent in the past fiscal year,” he said.
The minister said the ADP expenditure was Tk 1,47,703 crore in the last fiscal year, which was 107,085 crore in the 2016-’17 fiscal year.
In the 2017-‘18 fiscal year, the estimated ADP size was Tk 1,64,085 crore, which later came down to Tk 1,57,000 crore in the revised ADP, he said.
In terms of the revised ADP size, the ADP implementation rate is almost cent percent, said Mustafa Kamal.
He said the government had been able to spend some Tk 40,000 crore more in the last fiscal year compared to the expenditure of the previous fiscal year. “So, it won’t be a problem to implement the Tk 173,000-crore ADP in the current fiscal year as well.”
Placing the statistics regarding the ADP implementation in the last few years, the minister said the implementation rate was 81 percent of Tk 73,984 crore in 2013-’14 fiscal year, while it was 83 percent of Tk 86,000 crore in 2014-’15 and 86 percent of Tk 100,997 crore in 2015-’16 fiscal year.
The implementation of rate was 87 percent of Tk 123,346 crore ADP in the 2016-’17 fiscal year, he added.
