PM to hold post-budget briefing tomorrow

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief media over budget tomorrow as Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is ill.

The briefing is scheduled to be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka around 3:00pm.

The prime minister will attend the post-budget briefing for the first time, according to the daily schedule of the prime minister.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal and other ministers of the government will attend the press conference, finance ministry source said.

The prime minister today read out a part of the budget speech in the parliament after AHM Mustafa Kamal felt sick.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal presented Tk 523,190 crore budget for the fiscal year of 2019-20.

The new budget is 18.1 per cent of GDP.

Total allocation for operating and other expenditures is Tk 320,469 crore, and allocation for the annual development programme is Tk 202,721 crore.