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The government's austerity measures have hit implementation of the annual development programme (ADP) in the first month of the current fiscal year, with just 0.96 per cent of the total allocation being spent, the lowest in the last four years. 

A Tk 9.95 crore project of the commerce ministry aimed at expanding the country's export basket and reducing import dependency has failed to meet its deadline for a second time due to the slow pace of implementation.

Though four of its five stipulated years have already elapsed, a Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) project on developing 2,210 kilometres of rural roads has witnessed the completion of only a third of its core task. 

Once again, the public must pay for the government's failure.

News, researches & events on global feed & livestock industry

ILOILO CITY—The Department of Agriculture (DA) is now pushing for data forecasting for crops and livestock production in Western Visayas region. Data forecasting for crops and livestock production which is used as the basis in formulating policy that would be adopted used to be done by the Philipp

BREB solar pump project: A project undertaken by Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) to install 2,000 solar-powered irrigation pumps has been advancing at a snail's pace. 

On July 9 last year, a massive fire raged through a juice-making factory in Narayanganj, killing at least 52 people. And the whole nation witnessed how firefighters struggled to bring the blaze under control.  

Government spending on projects under the Annual Development Programme (ADP) rebounded in fiscal 2021-22 following a two-year disruption caused by Covid-19 but the implementation rate it is still slow compared to pre-pandemic levels.

“Digital Bangladesh” continues to be a central plank of the ruling Awami League, despite the failure of its techno-utopian Vision 2021.