, June 3 -- Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Tuesday termed the budget placed by the interim government "realistic and frugal'.

"I will tell this budget realistic and frugal aiming to ensuring a fragile economy into stable one where all financial institutions and all other state organisations were demolished," he said while addressing a post budget press conference held at Osmani Memorial Auditorium.

He said that they are having heavy trouble to clean the garbages that were left behind by the previous Awami League government.

The adviser said that the new projects that are taking by this government would come to implementation stage not in the coming 2025-26 fiscal, but in 2026-27 fiscal.

"These projects will be enlisted now, the...