DHAKA, June 13, 2019 (BSS) – Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has
started rolling out the national budget for the financial year 2019-20 (FY20)
at the Jatiya Sangsad.
The finance minister started budget speech at 3.07 pm as invited by
Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury.
This is the country’s 48th budget and the 20th of the Awami League (AL)
government in five terms while Tajuddin Ahmed presented the first budget as
the finance minister of the post-independence Bangabandhu government in 1972.
Kamal is announcing his first budget as the country’s 12th finance
minister after taking the charge of the finance ministry in the third
consecutive term of AL government.
AMA Muhith and Saifur Rahman presented the highest 12 budgets each at
different terms of their respective governments.
Muhith, however, is the first finance minister who placed the budget for 10
consecutive fiscals since 2009 until he went on retirement after the end of
last parliament.
Earlier on the day, the cabinet in its special meeting, with Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina in the chair in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban cabinet room,
approved the proposed budget for the coming financial year.
The finance minister, other cabinet ministers and state ministers concerned
attended the meeting.
The budget documents are available on the website of the finance division
www.mof.gov.bd.
The documents are also 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 organization at home and abroad can send feedback, opinion or
recommendations by filling up a form after downloading it from the website.
Post budget press conference will be held tomorrow at 3pm in city’s
Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).