Big budget for big population
Says prime minister
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday defended the size of the 2012-13 budget, saying that a big budget was imperative to propel rapid development of the country.
"To ensure overall development of 15-16 crore people of the country, a bulky budget is needed, and I have firm belief that we would be able to implement it," she said.
Presiding over a meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee at her official residence of Gano Bhaban, the prime minister said the budget was placed with a view to protecting the local industry and developing local products and ensuring their marketing.
"The government has been working to build Bangladesh as a self-dignified and self-reliant nation instead of an aid-dependent one in the world."
Sheikh Hasina said her government had undertaken a long-term plan to graduate Bangladesh to a middle-income nation by 2021.
She thanked the finance minister for presenting a budget, which she called time-befitting, and said people would get the benefit from it very soon.
The prime minister claimed that the government had held rounds of meetings and exchanged views with all concerned before placing the budget.
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