ADP projects for FY12
215 out of 244 projects remain incomplete
About 215 development projects, out of the total of 244 that were scheduled to be completed under the Annual Development Programme in fiscal year 2011-2012, remained incomplete at the end of the year.
A report of the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division released on Monday showed that only 29 projects under the ADP were completed in FY 11-12 although the implementation agencies claimed that the number of completed projects was 60.
IMED officials said that only 12 per cent of the total projects that were scheduled to be finished in the year were completed.
The report showed that only four ministries and divisions could complete their development projects during the time while 25 others failed to complete even a single project.
Another 14 ministries and divisions partially completed their projects while 13 others had no project in the completion list of the year, the report said.
IMED’s secretary Mozammel Haque Khan told New Age on Monday, ‘I am yet to go through the details of the implementation report. But I can firmly say that all the concerned agencies should complete their development projects in time.’
He said that the agencies spent 92 per cent of the total allocation for 1,231 development projects, many of which are scheduled to be completed in the next 1-4 years, but the completion rate is very poor compared the total implementation rate.
‘There are a lot of reasons behind the lower implementation rate including lack of resources, delayed start of work, land acquisition,’ he said.
He however, said that some ministries and divisions are yet to send their projects’ completion report and that may have contributed to the lower percentage of completion.
IMED officials said that each year development agencies select some projects for completion but at the end of the fiscal year most of these projects need extension due to their failure to implement the projects in time because of their inability and inefficiency.
‘The agencies lack the ability to implement development projects. There are of course some problems related to implementation including inadequate and delayed release of funds, delayed disbursement of foreign aid, complexities of land acquisition, inability to utilise resources, lack of supervision and control by the agency, lack of coordination and cooperation among departments, revision of projects’ content and time extension, repeated transfer of project directors, corruption and negligence of the agencies and inefficiency of the officials,’ a high official of IMED told New Age.
The ministries which could not complete even one project are the ministries of agriculture, fisheries and livestock, environment and forest, planning, youths and sports, public administration, home affairs, primary and mass education, health and family welfare, education, religious affairs, textile and jute, foreign affairs, commerce, rural development and cooperative division, local government division, roads, banks and financial institutions, statistics, legislative and parliamentary affairs, Parliament secretariat, law and justice division, Election Commission secretariat, Prime Minister’s Office and Power Division.
The local government division has a list of 38 projects for completion followed by 18 projects of the road division, 15 projects of the power division and nine projects of the agriculture ministry, and none has been completed, officials said.
Among the failed ministries and divisions, the local government division, power, road division and the ministries of health and family welfare, education, primary and mass education, water resources and agriculture are the largest recipients of resources in the revised ADP.
On the other hand, some ministries and divisions made a declaration of project completion but IMED found that 31 such projects actually could not be completed.
For example, the Ministry of Water Resources informed the IMED that it had completed 17 projects out of 19, but IMED’s report says that none of the projects have been actually completed.
However, water resources secretary Sheikh Altaf Ali told New Age that they had really completed 17 projects.
‘I cannot say how IMED says that our actual completion is nil. They may say so as we have not sent the completion report yet, since it takes at least three months to write such a report,’ he said.
-With New Age input
