Kamal to place budget for FY23 today

Jago News Desk Published: 8 June 2022, 04:06 PM | Updated: 9 June 2022, 11:58 AM
Kamal to place budget for FY23 today
Photo: BSS

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will place the national budget for FY23 at Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday from 3:00 pm.

This will be the 4th budget to be placed by Kamal as Finance Minister and also the overall 51st budget of the country.

The marginal communities of the country will get priority in the next budget, said a Finance Ministry press release on Wednesday.

The release said that the budget for the next fiscal year with the title "Returning to the continuity of development after passing through the impacts of COVID-19" has been framed based on the past attainments of the government and also under the present circumstances.

The issue of controlling inflation, the agriculture sector, health, human resource development, employment, education, and some other sectors will duly get the highest priority in the next budget.

To make the budget more participatory, all the budget-related documents will be available on the website of the Finance Division www.mof.gov.bd.

Any individual or organization would be able to download it and thus could send their valuable opinions and suggestions while staying from both home and abroad by filling up the feedback form on this website.

All the available opinions and recommendations would be considered and thus the accepted recommendations would be implemented during the passing of the budget by Jatiya Sangsad or after that period.

To ensure wide-scale participation, the budget documents will be available at the following government websites:

https://nbr.gov.bd

https://plandiv.gov.bd

https://imed.gov.bd

https://www.dpp.gov.bd

https://pmo.gov.bd

Meanwhile, the post-budget press conference will be held on Friday at 3:00 pm at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.

Source: BSS