The Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) under the Ministry of Planning has recommended for undertaking development projects through conducting more standard feasibility studies and analyzing received opinions from the concerned stakeholders to yield better outcomes, reports BSS.
The IMED also suggested for enhancing the capacity of the project implementation agencies in making the Development Project Proforma (DPP) to overcome the weaknesses for framing the development schemes. In such cases, the IMED advocated for keeping allocation in the revenue sector to frame designs and DPPs of the projects.
The IMED made a good number of observations and recommendations in its progress report on implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) placed before the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting held earlier this month.
Earlier on March 3, the NEC approved a Taka 2,16,000 crore Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year (FY25) with the highest priority on the transport and communications sector.
The original ADP outlay for the current fiscal year was Taka 2,65,000 crore. The RADP allocation in the current fiscal year witnessed a decrease of Taka 49,000 crore or 18.49 percent of the allocation.
Commenting on the planning process after the NEC meeting, Planning Adviser Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud said that from now on, they would try to speed up the pace of implementation of the RADP.
He said that the National Portal for Electronic Project Management Information System (e-PIMS) helps to know the actual progress state of the projects, but all the project authorities are yet to post their project related information in that software.
In such cases, posting project related information into that software might be made mandatory prior to receiving funds from the Ministry of Finance, he said.
Turning to the implementation rate of the ADP during the July-January period of the current fiscal year (FY25), the Planning Adviser said that the implementation rate during this period reached nearly 22 percent or exactly 21.52 percent although the utilization rate during this period in the previous fiscal years totaled 30 percent on an average.
He said that the concerned ministries, divisions and the implementing agencies would try to make their all-out efforts to speed up further the implementation rate.
