Dhaka, June 5 -- Businesses have showed mixed reactions over the proposed budget as several of those getting positive directions and some others found hardness in it.

"In one hand the budget constructed Annual Development Projects (ADP) for the sake of reducing government expenditures; on the other hand it has increase 6 per cent revenue budget which might hike inflations," Ashraf Ahmed, former President of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) told The New Nation on Tuesday.

Reducing services, logistic and material expenditures will make huge people unemployed and eventually it pushed those below poverty line. On the same time 6 per cent hiking of revenue budget will pose inflations which might create an anarchic situation in...