Country’s 48th budget to be placed Thursday
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KMA Hasnat: Country’s 48th budget will be placed in the parliament tomorrow (Thursday).
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is set to unfold the proposed national budget of around Tk 523,191 crore for fiscal year 2019-20.
Kamal is scheduled to start unfolding the budget in parliament at 3:00 pm while this would be the first budget for Kamal as the finance minister and 19th by the Awami League government in its different terms.
The budget is presumed to propose a number of well-fare oriented initiatives and reforms in the banking sector, capital market, savings certificates and social safety net programmes and generate employments.
The size of this year’s budget would be approximately Tk 58,618 crore more than that of the last fiscal presented by his predecessor Abul Maal Abdul Muhith.
Muhith last year presented a Tk 4,64,573 crore budget before he went on retirement by serving as the first finance minister to unfold the budget for the 10 times in a row since 2009.
Following is the chronology of national budgets along with their sizes with amounts being in crores:
Fiscal Who placed Amounts in crores
1972-73 Tajuddin Ahmed Tk 786
1973-74 Tajuddin Ahmed Tk 995
1974-75 Tajuddin Ahmed Tk 1,084
1975-76 Dr Azizur Rahman Mollik Tk 1,549
1976-77 Maj Gen Ziaur Rahman Tk 1,989
1977-78 Lt Gen Ziaur Rahman Tk 2,184
1978-79 President Ziaur Rahman Tk 2,499
1979-80 Dr M N Huda Tk 3,317
1980-81 M Saifur Rahman Tk 4,108
1981-82 M Saifur Rahman Tk 4,677
1982-83 A M A Muhith Tk 4,738
1983-84 A M A Muhith Tk 5,896
1984-85 M Sayeduzzaman Tk 6,699
1985-86 M Sayeduzzaman Tk 7,138
1986-87 M Sayeduzzaman Tk 8,504
1987-88 M Sayeduzzaman Tk 8,527
1988-89 Maj Gen Munim Tk 10,565
1989-90 Dr Wahidul Haq Tk 12,703
1990-91 Maj Gen Munim Tk 12,960
1991-92 M Saifur Rahman Tk 15,584
1992-93 M Saifur Rahman Tk 17,607
1993-94 M Saifur Rahman Tk 19,050
1994-95 M Saifur Rahman Tk 20,948
1995-96 M Saifur Rahman Tk 23,170
1996-97 SAMS Kibria Tk 24,603
1997-98 SAMS Kibria Tk 27,786
1998-99 SAMS Kibria Tk 29,537
1999-00 SAMS Kibria Tk 34,252
2000-01 SAMS Kibria Tk 38,524
2001-02 SAMS Kibria Tk 42,306
2002-03 M Saifur Rahman Tk 44,854
2003-04 M Saifur Rahman Tk 51,980
2004-05 M Saifur Rahman Tk 57,248
2005-06 M Saifur Rahman Tk 61,058
2006-07 M Saifur Rahman Tk 69,740
2007-08 Mirza Azizul Islam Tk 99,962
2008-09 Mirza Azizul Islam Tk 99,962
2009-10 AMA Muhith Tk 113,815
2010-11 AMA Muhith Tk 132,170
2011-12 AMA Muhith Tk 161,214
2012-13 AMA Muhith Tk 191,738
2013-14 AMA Muhith Tk 222,491
2014-15 AMA Muhith Tk 250,560
2015-16 AMA Muhith Tk 295,100
2016-17 AMA Muhith Tk 340,605
2017-18 AMA Muhith Tk 4,00,266
2018-19 AMA Muhith TK 4,64,573
2019-20 AHM Mustafa Kamal
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