Dhaka, May 31 -- It should draw up plans for a new financial blueprint to develop the health sector, broaden the tax net and reduce income inequality for the recovery, they suggested.

The budget session of parliament is set to begin on Jun 11 with a massive deficit in revenue earnings in the outgoing financial year mostly due to the pandemic.

Moreover, the World Bank has predicted only 2-3 percent GDP growth while the target was 8.2 percent.

But Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal believes that Bangladesh will finally be able to post over 6 percent growth. The economy grew by less than 6 percent for the last time in 2009-10.

"Recovery should get more importance than development," said Zaid Bakht, a researcher at Bangladesh Institute of...