Finance Minister, AHM Mustafa Kamal will be presenting the proposed budget for the financial year of 2022-2023 on Thursday, June 9, 2022. Alongside the general public, Bangladeshi celebrities and stars also have certain expectations from the government in regards to the upcoming budget. Actor Sohel Rana, musician Kumar Bishwajit, actor Riaz Ahmed and actress Meher Afroz Shaon spoke to The Daily Star about their expectations for the budget.

The budget for the next fiscal year should be framed by taking into account the new challenges facing the economy and the cost of living crisis confronting people, said a noted economist.

Austerity and generosity may not go hand in hand, but Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal faces a situation where he has to apply both when he unveils the budget for the next fiscal year today.

AHM Mustafa Kamal, whose life has been full of struggles, had dreamt of becoming the finance minister, so he consciously entered politics.

What is the purpose of the national budget? In essence, it is to allocate scarce resources.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government started a process to collect an additional $1,000 million as budgetary support to tackle future emergency situations and the economic crisis stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war.

Although the child-centric budget allocation increased in terms of size over the last two fiscal years, it dropped from 2.78 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 2.63 percent.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government started a process to collect an additional $1,000 million as budgetary support to tackle future emergencies and the economic crisis stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war.

The upcoming budget should increase allocation in the education sector to make up for the losses during the Covid-19 pandemic, demanded Campaign For Popular Education (CAMPE), an education advocacy and campaign network, yesterday.

The budget session of the fiscal year 2022-23 began today (June 5, 2022) at the parliament.

The number of risks that our economy currently faces because of all the global instabilities is perhaps unmatched since the early days of Bangladesh’s independence. Amid this reality, the government is set to present the new budget early next month.

When it comes to human development related expenses, the government should spend more.

The government has set an ambitious economic growth target of 7.5 per cent for the next fiscal year although the country faces new headwinds owing to higher prices of commodities globally and is still recovering from the shocks of the coronavirus pandemic.

The upcoming national budget for 2022-23 should focus on creating jobs and controlling inflation for the survival of the marginalised people, said Debapriya Bhattacharya, convener of the Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh.