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The planning minister said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the meeting underscored the need for further strengthening the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) under the Ministry of Planning.
He said the Premier opined that it is now not possible for the IMED to physically monitor and evaluate all the development projects considering the size of the economy.
In this regard, she suggested setting up offices of IMED at all the divisional headquarters to boost its field operations side by side setting up its own technical unit or lab.
Besides, the NEC meeting noted that the manpower, vehicles and other equipment of the IMED should be enhanced.
Expressing satisfaction over the utilization rate of the development projects, Mannan said the Prime Minister said that there is further scope for improvement.
She also reiterated her directives to carry out development in the districts and upazilas in line with the master plan side by side avoiding as far as possible arable lands, water bodies and ponds in case of any development work.
Besides, the Prime Minister asked the authorities concerned to ensure providing Project Completion Report at the end of a project, prioritizing recruitment of local experts and consultants for development works, ensuring that the project directors remain at their sites while one project director should not remain in charge of more than one project. She also stressed conducting area-wise zoning to mark the industrial, commercial, educational and residential areas.
Answering a question, the planning minister said he was hopeful of attaining cent percent implementation rate of the RADP in the current fiscal year.
According to the RADP, the transport sector received the highest allocation in the RADP with Taka 38,040.04 crore which is 23.05 percent of the overall RADP allocation.
The power sector received the 2nd highest allocation of Taka 23,225.36 crore which is 14.08 percent of the RADP while the physical planning, water supply and housing sector received the 3rd highest RADP allocation of 12.35 percent or Taka 20,377.84 crore.
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