The interim government implemented only 2.39 per cent of its Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the first two months of the financial year 2025-26, a decline from the same period last year despite a shortened budget.
According to the data released by the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division under the planning ministry on Monday, in July-August of FY26, a total of Tk 5,714.83 crore has been spent from the development budget.
During the same period in FY25, the amount was Tk 7,143.08 crore, and the implementation stood at 2.57 per cent.
In the national budget of FY26, the government allocated Tk 238,696.64 crore as ADP for the financial year.
In the single month of August 2025, the implementation stood at Tk 4,070.18 crore or 1.71 per cent. The implementation was 1.52 per cent or Tk 4220.73 crore in August of 2024, IMED data stated.
Although August showed marginal year-on-year improvement, the overall figure remained depressed due to a particularly weak July, when only Tk 1,644.66 crore was spent, equivalent to 0.69 per cent of the allocation, compared with Tk 2,922.36 crore in July of 2024.
The slowdown comes despite the government rolling out a reduced, austerity-focused ADP for the current fiscal year.
Earlier, at an ECNEC meeting in August,聽Planning adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud voiced disappointment over the very low implementation rate of the ADP, as it has fallen below one percent.
鈥楾his is lower than the previous year, this is not a good sign,鈥� he said while briefing reporters after the weekly Ecnec meeting.
He mentioned that the ADP implementation rate in the last fiscal was lower than the target level for various acceptable reasons. 鈥楾his year, it was supposed to be accelerated; the excuses of last year cannot be acceptable this year.鈥�