Dhaka, Nov. 4 -- State Minister for Planning Zonayed Abdur Rahim Saki said on Wednesday said the government is going to introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-based monitoring, expert scrutiny and independent price assessment to ensure greater transparency and accountability in public project expenditure.

Briefing reporters after an Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) meeting, he said the Planning Ministry was preparing a new rate schedule and developing a software-based system to use AI to examine whether project expenditure on goods and services was in line with the approved rates.

"Through this technology, we will examine every expenditure using software and AI to determine whether spending is being made in a...