Dhaka, April 27 -- Core ministries responsible for human development have utilised less than one-third of their Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) allocations during the first nine months of the current fiscal year, according to the latest data from the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED).

The underperformance of these key ministries, including the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, dragged overall RADP implementation down to 36.19 per cent during the July-March period of FY'26, marking a second consecutive annual decline and the lowest execution rate in a decade, the IMED's monthly ADP progress report revealed on Sunday.

The report shows that ministrie...