Steps to revise inflated DAE project soon: Planning minister | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Friday
June 09, 2023

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
FRIDAY, JUNE 09, 2023
Steps to revise inflated DAE project soon: Planning minister

Corruption

TBS Report
21 July, 2020, 06:10 pm
Last modified: 21 July, 2020, 07:06 pm

Related News

  • Commodity prices start falling: Planning minister
  • Differently-abled people left behind for established injustice: Planning minister
  • Bangladesh on track to complete current spate of transformation in 2041: Planning Minister
  • VCPEAB expects impact investment to create a resilient economy
  • Govt working to minimise digital divide, education gap: Planning Minister

Steps to revise inflated DAE project soon: Planning minister

The minister also praised The Business Standard (TBS) for publishing an investigative report on the project on July 18. The report was titled “How much does a Boti cost? It costs Tk10k for Govt”

TBS Report
21 July, 2020, 06:10 pm
Last modified: 21 July, 2020, 07:06 pm
Planning Minister MA Mannan. Photo: Collected
Planning Minister MA Mannan. Photo: Collected

Planning Minister MA Mannan said immediate steps would be taken to revise the project of the Department of Agricultural Extension, which had predicted abnormal prices of various products including vegetable cutters (locally known as boti), plates, spoons, spice pots and laptops.

The minister also praised The Business Standard (TBS) for publishing an investigative report on the project on July 18. The report was titled "How much does a Boti cost? It costs Tk10k for Govt".

Responding to a question at a press briefing after the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday, the minister said, "You (TBS) have made an accurate report. The price of a Boti can never be Tk10,000. It is not an overestimate. It is unjustified."

The minister also said that the TBS report has revealed many things.

Minister Mannan said those involved in the formulation of the project would be called on and talked to. Initiatives will also be taken to offset the price of various types of equipment and materials.

Terming the government as a development-oriented one, the minister further said a large number of projects are being undertaken and implemented to keep the pace of development on right track. No government undertook so many projects in the past.

He added that, due to the manpower crisis, it is not always possible to go through every page of all project proposals. Taking that advantage, a lot of unjustified opportunities are being included into projects. The government will be more careful in this regard in the future.

According to the TBS report published on Sunday, the price of each Boti was fixed at Tk10,000 in a project titled Agricultural Mechanisation through Integrated Management.

Not the Boti alone, but other small kitchen utensils, such as plates, plastic bowls, spoons and rice drums, were also priced unusually high. The estimated cost for buying furniture items like chairs, tables and sofas was exorbitant too.

Computers, laptops, smart televisions, air conditioners, fridges and other home appliances were also targeted to purchase at almost double the usual prices.

Under the project, 51,300 pieces of agricultural equipment will be distributed at half-subsidised price.

It will save 50 percent time and 20 percent money in farming as well as reduce crop wastage by 10-15 percent, Department of Agricultural Extension, the implementing agency, claimed in the project document.

The project was approved in the Ecnec meeting on July 14.

The issue of overpricing the project created a discussion across the country following the TBS report.

Consequently, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a notice to Dr Abdul Muyeed, director general of the Department of Agricultural Extension. A three-member committee was also formed by the ministry to investigate the incident.

The Department of Agricultural Extension has taken initiatives to form a separate evaluation committee, said Dr Abdul Muyeed.

Meanwhile, six projects costing Tk1136.84 crore were approved at the Ecnec meeting held on Tuesday.

Of the amount, Tk1028.51 crore will be provided from the government's own funds for the implementation of the project. The rest will come from foreign sources as project assistance.

Bangladesh / Top News

Planning Minister / Boti / DAE project / steps

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Illustration: TBS
    Inflation roars on
  • Photo: UNB
    S Alam Group's Banshkhali power plant shut down due to coal shortage
  • The mystique of Serajul Alam Khan
    The mystique of Serajul Alam Khan

MOST VIEWED

  • 3 directors of Shah Amin Group banned from leaving country
    3 directors of Shah Amin Group banned from leaving country
  • ACC sues 3 West Zone Power Distribution Company officials for embezzling Tk33.40cr
    ACC sues 3 West Zone Power Distribution Company officials for embezzling Tk33.40cr
  • Photo: Collected
    ACC launches int'l probe into ex-OC Pradeep's assets; writes to India, 6 other countries
  • 5 directors of Shitalpur Steel banned from leaving country
    5 directors of Shitalpur Steel banned from leaving country
  • Anti-Corruption Commission, Bangladesh. Photo- The Business Standard
    ACC files case against 3 WASA officials for graft charges
  • Photo/Courtesy
    ACC probing reports of 459 Bangladeshis owning property in Dubai

Related News

  • Commodity prices start falling: Planning minister
  • Differently-abled people left behind for established injustice: Planning minister
  • Bangladesh on track to complete current spate of transformation in 2041: Planning Minister
  • VCPEAB expects impact investment to create a resilient economy
  • Govt working to minimise digital divide, education gap: Planning Minister

Features

Yamaha MT-15 V2

Top 3 150-160cc naked sports bikes in Bangladesh

6h | Wheels
Infograph: TBS

Balancing lives and livelihoods: How can South Asia prepare for the next pandemic?

8h | Panorama
Earning more money isn’t exactly a priority for Messi, already one of the world’s richest athletes. Photo: Bloomberg

Why Lionel Messi chose Miami over Riyadh

9h | Panorama
Many stores at the solar wholesale markets are now half full. Or half empty. Photo: Noor-A-Alam

Empty stores and crowded corridors: How the solar market ran out in a week

11h | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

Stats of Europe’s Top 5 League

Stats of Europe’s Top 5 League

3h | TBS SPORTS
13 helpful tips to negotiate about job

13 helpful tips to negotiate about job

1d | TBS Career
Why did Messi turn away from Europe?

Why did Messi turn away from Europe?

1d | TBS SPORTS
Tips to getting sleep on a hot night

Tips to getting sleep on a hot night

11h | TBS Health

Most Read

1
bKash denied permission to pay $4.10 lakh for Argentina football partnership
Banking

bKash denied permission to pay $4.10 lakh for Argentina football partnership

2
Photo: Noor-A-Alam/TBS
Splash

The Night Dhaka did NOT vibe with Anuv Jain

3
Photo: TBS
Energy

2nd unit of Payra power plant to shut down over coal shortage

4
Photo: Screengrab from a video posted by a NSU student
Energy

'Will collapse any moment': NSU teachers, students raise concern after long power outage hit country's largest private uni

5
Digital bank licence requires Tk125cr capital
Banking

Digital bank licence requires Tk125cr capital

6
Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS
Energy

LPG price drops by Tk13.42 per kg

EMAIL US
[email protected]
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2023
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - [email protected]

For advertisement- [email protected]