The performance appraisal of a total 181 development projects under the annual development programme of the last fiscal year showed no progress at all.
‘The necessary money for those projects was allocated and spent timely by the implementing agencies of the government. But the actual outcome of those projects was nil,’ a senior official of the Implementation, Evaluation and Monitoring Department told New Age.
Such development pattern was revealed in the evaluation report of the ADP for last 2011-12 fiscal, he said.
The evaluation report was placed on March 20 at the meeting of the National Economic Council with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
‘Most of the 181 development projects were important as they were given highest priority for socio-economic development of the country,’ the IMED official said.
But the concerned agencies have failed to implement the projects due to lack of proper monitoring by the respective ministries or departments, he added.
According to the IMED’s evaluation report, education ministry and road division each failed to implement 23 projects, fisheries and livestock ministry 21 projects, rail ministry 15 projects, environment and forestry ministry 14 projects, health and social welfare ministry 6 projects, Dhaka City Corporation 5 projects, home ministry 2 projects among the 181 projects in the last fiscal year.
IMED sources said the government had allocated a total of Tk 36 crore for development in three important areas including the hoars and wetlands, protecting rivers and agro-meteorological services.
About Tk 29 crore out of Tk 36 crore had been already spent. But there was no real progress of development in those areas, sources said.
IMED has identified ten ministries and divisions as the lowest performer in development works in the last fiscal year.
Ten ministries and divisions are the finance including the banking division, information and technology, cabinet division, secretariat of the national parliament, bridges department, civil aviation and tourism, legislative and parliamentary affairs and foreign ministry.
The report also said that 64 per cent, or 2.08 years in average, of the implementation time of every development project had been increased in last financial year 2011-12.
‘Overall cost of every development project of the ADP also accelerated by 30 per cent in last fiscal year, the IMED report said.
It said that in the last fiscal year a total of 199 projects were completed. Among those, implementation time of 149 projects increased by 5.34 years. On the other hand, cost of 83 projects increased, while 153 projects increased their implementation time.
IMED, in its report, has identified nine impediments to smooth implementation of ADP including inefficiency of the project directors, lack of coordination between ministries and implementing agencies, timely disbursement of money against ADP allocations, inadequate and unskilled manpower, natural calamity, frequent transfer of the project directors etc. (Source)
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