Academics, youth leaders and professionals on Friday at a discussion in Dhaka called on the Awami League government to formulate the budget for the financial year 2024-25 giving a sufficient allocation for creating jobs for youths of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Juba Union, youth front of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, organised the discussion at the National Press Club on the budget where its president Khan Asaduzzaman Masum chaired.
Economist and central leader of the CPB, MM Akash, said that the government should formulate a pro-people budget so that the ordinary people of the country could be benefited from it.
MM Akash said that the budget should be productive and must have scope for creating new job opportunities for educated youths.
Central leader of Juba Union Habib Emon read out the keynote paper at the programme where he said that the youths were the productive workforce for the country and so the government should take steps for creating new job opportunities for them.
Senior research fellow of Centre for Policy Dialogue Toufiqul Islam Khan said that the government should take steps for collecting more taxes from the people so that it could be used for the welfare of the people.
General secretary of Ganatantrik Budget Andolan Manwar Mostafa said that before formulation of the budget opinions of different sections of the people should be taken.
Dhaka University professor Jobaida Nasreen said that the budget should create new job scope for the youths.
Former president of Juba Union Abdulla Kafee Ratan, Juba Union general secretary Jahangir Alam Nannu, journalist Raju Ahmed, Juba Union leader Hafiz Adnan Riad and others spoke at the discussion.
