Old age allowance to cover 8 lakh more senior citizens

Eight lakh more poverty-stricken elderly citizens will be covered under the "old-age allowance" in the proposed FY21-22 budget.

At the moment 49 lakh elderly citizens of 112 upazilas are covered under this allowance, while the new budget includes another 150 more upazilas belonging to the extremely high and high poverty groups.

To this end, an additional allocation of Tk 481 crore has been proposed to this particular allowance programme. The budget for this for the previous fiscal year was Tk 2,940 crore.