Discipline restored in economy: Chief Adviser 

Chief Adviser Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus has said that discipline has been restored in the country’s economy from a devastated one while it has been one of the very important attainments of the interim government.

The Chief Adviser said this while addressing the nation on the occasion of Independence Day and upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr on Tuesday.

“Confidence has been restored in the banking system. As a result of this, discipline has been restored in the economy while it was very much important among the attainments of the interim government,” he said.

Extending warm greetings to the countrymen ahead of the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr, he said that the current interim government has taken strong measures to control the prices of essentials as the big challenges during the Holy Month of Ramadan and before the Eid-ul-Fitr was reining in the prices of essentials and thus ensuring the power supply.

“We’ve tried our best so that the price of any product doesn’t increase during this Ramadan and there is no interruption in the power supply,” he said.

Mentioning that his government has taken all sorts of measures to strongly overcome the hurdles in the supply chain during this Holy Month, Prof Yunus said news have already come from all corners of the country that the commodity prices remained less during this Ramadan compared to the past while people also got comfort. “This effort will continue to control commodity prices,” he added. 

The Chief Adviser said that the countrymen were the victims of the unabated looting and plundering by Sheikh Hasina over the last 16 years while she had left a devastated economy before fleeing in the face of a student-led mass uprising. “After taking charge, the interim government had taken various steps to recover the economy,” he said. 

Noting that discipline has been restored in the banking sector side by side other macroeconomic indicators have started to come into positive trend, he said that the biggest challenge of this government is inflation.