The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approves 13 projects involving an overall estimated cost of Tk 12,415.79 crore including one project to ensure infrastructural development of some 3,250 private secondary schools across the country with Tk 5,237.38 crore.

The implementation of at least half a dozen foreign-aided projects involving more than Tk 6,000 crore has become uncertain as those

Sanchayapatra – a supposed welfare instrument – is actually a Trojan horse that threatens the future of our development budget, and thus reduces growth potentials for the nation. The higher the sale of NSCs, the higher the future interest liability which will definitely eat up a bigger pie of our budget, reducing the share of the Annual Development Programme (ADP).

Most ministries and divisions of the government fail to utilise the full financial allocation made to them annually.