Dhaka, June 2 -- The interim government has proposed a Tk 7.9 trillion budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year, reflecting a 6.18 percent increase from the revised budget for the outgoing financial year.

The spending plan amounts to 12.65 percent of the country's total GDP, which stands at Tk 62.44 trillion.

Finance Advisor Salehuddin Ahmed presented the budget on Monday in a televised address, with the proposal approved earlier by the Advisory Council in the absence of a sitting parliament.

The earlier budget, placed by former finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali for FY2024-25, was 11.56 percent larger than the revised FY2023-24 plan, accounting for 14.24 percent of GDP.

The last off-parliament budget was presented in 2008, under the ...