Coronavirus: BNP proposes for national task force

Bangladesh Nationalist Party has proposed the government to form a national task force to prevent coronavirus outbreak.

The party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the proposal while addressing a press conference at the party chairperson’s office at the capital’s Gulshan to present the party’s analysis on the government announced incentive package.

The task force should include representatives from different political parties, social representatives, noted journalists, physicians, economists, social scientists and representatives from armed forces, he added.

Fakhrul said, “Though the prime minister announced Tk 95,619 crore package is big in size, it is actually a “jugglery of Words”. If we review the package, we find most of it is basically bank-based loan package which will be given mainly to the businessmen of different sectors on the basis of the relation between banks and clients. Government’s incentive is very inadequate.”

“Of the total financial package, Tk 77,750 crore is for loan package and the government incentive is only about Tk 3,000 crore which would be given as interest incentive from the government exchequer,” he said.


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