The interim government is planning downsizing the current annual development programme by about 13 per cent or Tk聽30,000 crore amid its slow implementation rate, said officials.
The revised ADP for the 2025-26 financial year may stand at Tk聽2,00,000 crore from Tk聽2,30,000 crore set by the National Economic Council at a meeting on May 18, 2025.
The ADP implementation rate in the first four months (July-October) of the FY26 improved slightly to 8.33 per cent over the rate of 7.9 per cent in the same period of FY25.
The rate was 11.54 per cent in the first four months of FY24, 12.64 per cent in FY23 and 13.06 per cent in FY22, according to the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division under the planning ministry.
IMED officials expected that the ADP implementation rate might improve in the FY26 after a record low of 67.85 per cent in FY25 marked by the political changeover with the fall of the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, in the wake a mass uprising.
But the implementation rate is unlikely to increase in the current financial year because of the next general elections slated for the first half of February 2026, just about four months before the end of FY26 in June.
The National Economic Council headed by interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus is likely to hold a meeting in the next month to make the early revision to the ADP so that the new elected government faces no problems in implementing the revised ADP.
Regarding the planned cut, the contribution of the government fund is likely to be reduced by 11.11 per cent to Tk聽1,28,000 crore from the original Tk聽1,44,000 crore, said the officials.
The foreign part in the ADP may be cut by 16.27 per cent to Tk聽72,000 crore from the original Tk聽86,000 crore.
A joint-meeting of the coordination council and the budget management and resource committee on November 10 reviewed the overall progress of the current national budget as part of the early revision to the fiscal measures.
Presided over by finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, the online joint-meeting also set an initial estimate to cut the size of the overall budget by Tk 20,000 crore from Tk聽7.9 lakh crore.
It also decided to revise down the country鈥檚 gross domestic product growth to 5 per cent from 5.5 per cent for the FY26 and an upward revision of inflation to 7 per cent from 6.5 per cent.聽聽