The government itself is being frugal in its spending, with only 25 percent of the government allocation spent in the first seven months of the year. On the other hand, project aid expenditure increased by more than 30 percent. He said this has been a consistent trend in the last two years.
According to the Planning Ministry's Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), the total expenditure on ADP implementation in the July-January period was Tk 744.64 billion, when the total size of ADP including autonomous entities is Tk 2746.74 billion. Among them, the size of ADP under the Ministry of Planning is Tk 2630 billion.
The current ADP includes a total of 1,392 projects.