Finance Minister: Proposed budget to make economy more dynamic

Noting that the country's economy would be more dynamic through implementation of the proposed budget for fiscal 2022-23 ( FY23), Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Friday said this budget would also be helpful for the marginal people since the poor class has been duly prioritized.

"This budget for the next fiscal year will be helpful for the marginal people ...all of those including the businessmen and the hard-earned people will be benefitted from it and we've prepared the budget in such a way," he said.

The Finance Minister also claimed that the people of the country were not cheated over the last three years of his term as he has fulfilled whatever he pledged. "We've framed this budget considering each and every poor people, reports BSS.

Kamal said this while responding to a volley of questions at a post-budget press conference held at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.

Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni, Health Minister Zahid Maleque, State Minister for Finance Dr Shamsul Alam, Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir, Finance Division Senior Secretary Abdur Rouf Talukder, NBR Chairman Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem, Financial Institution Division Secretary Sheikh Mohammad Salim Ullah, Planning Division Secretary Prodeep Ranjan Chakrabarty and ERD Secretary Fatima Yasmin were present at the press conference.

Besides, minister, state ministers, secretaries and other high officials from different ministries and divisions were also present.

Kamal placed a Taka 6,78,064 crore proposed budget for the next fiscal year at Jatiya Sangsad yesterday (Thursday) eying a 7.5 percent growth and containing average inflation at 5.6 percent.