Tk 97,000cr ADP implementable: Planning minister

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today hoped that the development outlay of Tk 97,000 crore is implementable with an equal expenditure in every quarter.

It has become a tradition of spending around half of the development budget in the first three quarters, but the pace accelerates in the fourth quarter and 40 to 45 percent of the development outlay implemented in the last quarter, he said.

“But we are trying to get out of the practice and spend the total development outlay equally in every quarter, and if we can do it the annual development programme can be implemented,” he said replying to queries at a post-budget press conference at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka.

“We have also taken several reform measures to implement the ADP,” the planning minister added.