DHAKA, June 7, 2018 (BSS) – The government has allocated Taka 29,084 crore
for the Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces Division and other services, in the
proposed budget for the fiscal (FY) 2018-2019.
The allocation is Taka 2,669 crore higher than the revised budget of the
previous FY 2017-18 of Taka 26,415 crore. Of the total amount of Taka 29,084
crore allocated in the FY 2018-19, Tk 29,049 crore has been allocated for the
Ministry of Defence and Tk 35 crore for the Armed Forces Division.
Placing the budget proposals at the Jatiya Sangsad here today, Finance
Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said, “Capacity enhancing programmes for the
army, the navy and the air force are also going on, Air Defence
Identification Zone (ADIZ) has been fixed on Bangladesh’s airspace and works
to establish two full-fledged air force base of Bangladesh Air Force in
Sylhet district is continuing.”
Further steps that are being taken to strengthen the overall security of
the country are: establishment of weather observatories in 10 places of the
country, modernisation of air monitoring system at the upper level and
setting up of automatic weather observation system and establishment of wind
profiler, preparing digital map with updated information and establishment of
geodetic control network, establishment of National Spatial Data
Infrastructure (NSDI), establishment of 2 tidal Stations and activities of
Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) Survey in entire Bangladesh, he said.