Staff Reporter:
The budget session of the Parliament begun on Wednesday with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
This is the 23rd session of the 11th Parliament.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is scheduled to present the national budget for the FY2023-24 on Thursday.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin summoned the 23rd session (Budget Session) of the Parliament exer-cising power bestowed upon him by Article 72(1) of the Constitution.
The budget session starts at 5:05pm.
On May 11 last, the National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday approved a Tk 263,000 crore An-nual Development Program (ADP) for the next fiscal year (FY24) making highest allocation of Tk 75,945 crore (28.88pc of allocation) in the transport and communication sector.
Out of the original ADP allocation, Tk 169,000crore will be drawn from the local sources while Tk 94,000 crore will come from the foreign sources.
In 2022, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal placed Tk 678,064-crore national budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 in the House.
