Cabinet approves national budget for FY2022-23

The Cabinet at a special meeting on Thursday approved the proposed national budget for the fiscal year 2022-23. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting held at the cabinet room of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal and other Cabinet ministers and state ministers concerned attended the meeting. The

Kamal likely to place Tk 6,78,064cr budget for FY23 today

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is likely to place a Taka 6,78,064 crore budget for the next fiscal year (FY23) at Jatiya Sangsad (JS) today with the major challenge of reining inflation amid unfavourable global economic situation. This will be the country's 51st budget and the 23rd of the Awami League

Why just black money, why not ‘black crime’?

The system of making black money white has become a bit of a debate in this very drab season in Bangladesh. Not only is the Covid and lockdown on but the heat is almost unbearable and good news is in short supply.  Luckily, Bangladesh won the ODI series against Sri

A survival budget and an inefficient system

Bangladesh along with the world needs massive vaccination –around 70-80%- to be safe to carry on with other activities including economic ones.  Whether that is a realistic objective one isn’t sure but that fact remains. The world is actually going through a massive human ecological change as the vulnerable are

Businessmen to benefit most from budget: Kamal

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Friday defended the proposed budget for fiscal 2021-22 and said businessmen will benefit most from it as they would create more jobs for the people. "The private sector has to be in the driving seat to generate employment. Government alone cannot create employment," the minister said

Kamal unveils Tk 603,681cr budget for FY22

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Thursday unveiled a Tk 603,681 crore national budget for 2021-22 fiscal year in the Jatiya Sangsad with major focus on the lives and livelihoods of the people. The new budget themed as “Bangladesh towards a resilient future protecting lives and livelihoods” is 17.4 percent of the

The corona budget

Nobody was expecting anything new and the budget was not disappointing that way. It’s a budget of convenience and beyond the numbers is about Bangladesh trying to cope with an emergency. People have stopped looking at budgetary allocations  and it's probably only economists and politicians who bother. And they bother

Budget FY22: Bring new poor under social safety net

Marginalised people have been affected the most by the Covid pandemic. A large segment of this list includes women, small ethnic groups and farmers. Various studies have shown that a large number of people have fallen below the poverty line anew due to the effects of the pandemic. Experts have

Parliament gets Tk 336.14cr budget for next fiscal year

The Parliament Secretariat Commission on Sunday approved a Tk 336.14 crore budget for Parliament to spend on its development and non-development expenditures for the next fiscal year (2020-21). The approval was given at the 32nd meeting of the Commission held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury