JS –11 BUDGET-DISCUSSION-TWO-LAST

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BUDGET-DISCUSSION-TWO-LAST

Terming the proposed budget as a good one, former Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad said “we need skilled people in the administration to implement the budget, adding that country’s current GDP growth is 7.86 per cent and we have to keep it up for achieving the status of a developing country.”

“Proposed budget is eight times bigger compared to the budget placed by the BNP and the proposed budget did not create extra burden on the common people,” said Deputy Minister for Water Resource Enamul Haq Shamim.

Criticizing the proposed budget, Jatiya Party lawmaker Fakhrul Imam said the proposed budget of Taka 5,23,190 crore is almost 636 times higher compared to the budget of Taka 786 crore which was placed by the then finance minister Tazuddin Ahmed immediately after the independence.

In terms of ideology, the budget placed by Tazuddin Ahmed was pro socialism, but the present budget is pro capitalism which is totally opposite to the budget placed by Tajuddin Ahmed, he added.

The proposed budget has protected the rich people, but it [proposed budget] has no safety for the lower and middle income people, the opposition lawmaker said.

Imam, however, said in his budget discussion that the discrimination in budget during the regime of Bangabandhu was only 0 .24 which means no disparity during the budget in 1974. But now Bangladesh has scored first position in case of rising rich people and creating disparity across the world.

Bangladesh has also proved its inefficiency in realizing the revenue earning, he said, adding that country’s revenue earning is only 13 per cent while it is 25 per cent for Afghanistan, 30 per cent in Bhutan, 21 per cent in China and 24 per cent in India and Maldives.

Treasury bench member , Minister for Textiles and Jute Golam Dastigir Gazi, Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Tajul Islam, State Minister for Social Welfare Sharif Ahmed, Deputy Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Habibun Nahar, Ramesh Chandra Sen, Shahjahan Khan, AB Tajul Islam, Shahjahan Kamal, Mohibur Rahman Manik, Sherin Ahmed, Aslam Hossain Saudagar, Kazim Uddin Ahmed, BM Kabirul Haque, Ayesha Ferdous, Nazim Uddin Ahmed, Bodruddoza Md Farhad Hossain, Zafar Alam, Anwer Hossain Khan, Kazi Kaniz Sultana, Ayeen Uddin, Akhteruzzaman, SM Shahjada, Mozaffar Hossain, Khodeza Nasreen Akhter Hossain, Jatiya Party lawmakers Nurul Islam Talukder, Panir Uddin Ahmed and Nazma Akther and BNP lawmaker Md. Aminul Islam, took part in the discussion.

Earlier, they paid their cordial tribute to the memory of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, four national leaders, martyred freedom fighters and also those who made their utmost sacrifices during the War of Liberation and all subsequent democratic movements in the country.

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