Planning minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday 43 per cent of the Annual Development Programmes was implemented in the first nine months of the outgoing fiscal year of 2014-15.
A total of Tk 778.42 billion was allocated against 453 development projects in ADP.
The planning minister disclosed the piece of information in parliament in response to a question from an independent lawmaker, Tahzib Alam Siddiqui.
Earlier, the day’s sitting began at 10:30 am with speaker Shirin Sharmin Choudhury in the chair.
In response to a question from a ruling party lawmaker, Mamunur Rashid, the state minister for home affairs, Asaduzzaman Khan, told parliament that a total of 237 Myanmar nationals are now detained in Bangladesh jails while the number is 510 when it includes all foreign nationals.
-Prothom Alo