Muhith placing national budget

Staff Correspondent: Finance Minister AMA Muhith is placing in Parliament a Tk 400,266 crore national budget for the next fiscal year (FY18) targeting a 7.4 per cent GDP rate.

The Finance Minister started placing the budget in the House from 1:30 pm.

The new budget is the country's 46th national one and the 18th of the Awami League government while Muhith's 11th.  Muhith also placed two national budgets during HM Ershad's regime in the early 80s.

Like previous year, the Finance Minister is presenting the budget through PowerPoint which is made available on the website of the Finance Division-www.mof.gov.bd.

The budget documents will also be available on www.bangladesh.gov.bd, www.nbr-bd.org, www.plancomm.gov.bd, www.imed.gov.bd, www.bdpressinform.org and www.pmo.gov.bd.

Any person or organisation at home and abroad can send feedback, opinion or recommendation by filling up a form after downloading it from the websites.

Meanwhile, the Finance Minister will address a post-budget press conference at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium at 3pm on Friday.



Risingbd/Dhaka/June 1, 2017/Mukul