Project Processing, Appraisal and Management System software launched
City Desk :
The government launched the Project Processing, Appraisal and Management System (PPS) software aiming to save cost and time as well as ensuring more transparency and accountability in the project formulation and approval process.
Planning Minister MA Mannan spoke at the PPS software launching ceremony as the chief guest while State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam, Secretary of Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Dr Nahid Rashid and Planning Commission Member (Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Institutions Division) AKM Fazlul Haque spoke as special guests held on the twenty-fourth instant at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area., reports BSS.
Planning Division Secretary Satyajit Karmakar presided over the function.
Project director of the SDPP project Nurun Nahar gave the opening remarks. Members of the Planning Commission; Secretary, Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division; and other senior officers were present.
The project titled “Community Based Fisheries Management in Nimgachi Area” was approved today at the program on digital platform by the Planning Minister.
The entire process of approval of this project taken by the Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has been completed online using PPS software.
Online project approval using PPS software will be a milestone in building ‘Smart Bangladesh’ which will increase transparency, dynamism and knowledge reliance in the national planning system.
Speaking on the occasion as the chief guest, Planning Minister MA Mannan said that today was a great day for the Ministry of Planning and also for the Planning Commission as both the entities have been able to launch successfully the PPS software which would eventually benefit all the concerned stakeholders.
Noting that the different executing agencies have performed less in utilization of RADP in the last fiscal year (FY23) compared to the previous fiscal year (FY22), Mannan suggested for developing such software in the project implementation monitoring process to have much better outcomes.
He also directed all the concerned officials involved in the project framing and appraisal process to perform their duties and responsibilities as per the existing rules and regulations and also through rectifying the errors in their work.
State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam said that today marks an epoch-making event of the Ministry of Planning and the Planning Division as the launching of the PPS software would minimize the cost and save time in the project formulation and approval process while it would also ensure transparency and accountability.
Secretary of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Dr Nahid Rashid said that launching of the PPS software would facilitate the project framing and appraisal process and thus would benefit the entire nation. Dr Nahid also said that she was proud that her Ministry was the pioneer to be associated with this software. Planning Commission member AKM Fazlul Haque said that this PPS software would help the government to save time and cost as well as eradicate the trend in duplication of work and in undertaking of projects.
He said that under such initiative, it would be possible to know the work on how many projects are going on in which areas.
The Planning Commission member also hoped that through operation of such software it would be possible to process the development projects in a speedy manner.
Planning Division Secretary Satyajit Karmakar said that the development projects of different ministries would be gradually processed under this software which would also give relief to the implementing agencies for coming out of the tradition of printing Development Project Performs.
The function was informed that since building ‘Smart Bangladesh’ is one of the goals of the current government, Digital Service Roadmap 2021 was prepared at the national level to materialize this goal.
The Planning Division is a partner in the roadmap implementation plan. Keeping this objective in mind, two day-long workshops on Digital Service Implementation Roadmap 2021 was held at the Prime Minister’s Office on 30-31 December 2017 and a draft of “Digital Service Implementation Roadmap 2021” was prepared for the Planning Division and Planning Commission with the participation of Planning Division and Planning Commission officials.
Later, on 15-20 April, 2019, in the workshop titled “Digital Service Design and Planning Lab” organized by the Planning Division in collaboration with A2I, five digital services of the Planning Division and the Planning Commission were identified which will accelerate the national planning system.
