Dhaka, July 1 -- Parliament on Tuesday passed the Tk 568,000 crore national budget for 2020-21 fiscal year with the slogan 'Economic Transition and Pathway to Progress'.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal moved the Appropriations Bill, 2020 seeking a budgetary allocation of Tk 759,642.44 crore which was passed by voice vote.
Following the proposal mooted in the House by the Finance Ministry for the parliamentary approval of appropriation of fund for meeting necessary development and non-development expenditures of the government, the ministers concerned placed justifications for the expenditures by their respective ministries through 59 demands for grant.
Earlier, Parliament rejected by voice vote a total of 421 cut-motions that stood in...