The Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday passed the Tk 7,97,000 crore national budget for FY25 setting a goal for achieving 6.75 per cent gross domestic product growth and keeping annual inflation at around 6 per cent.
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali moved the Appropriations Bill 2024, seeking a budgetary allocation of Tk 12,41,752 crore which was passed by voice votes.
Earlier on Saturday, the parliament passed the Finance Bill 2024 with some minor changes.
After the finance ministry had mooted the proposal in the Jatiya Sangsad for its approval of the appropriation of funds for meeting necessary development and non-development expenditures of the government, the ministers concerned placed justifications for the expenditure of their ministries through 59 demands for grants.
Earlier, the parliament rejected by voice votes a total of 251 cut-motions that stood in the name of opposition members on those 59 demands for grants for different ministries.
Seven lawmakers鈥擬ujibul Huq and Hafiz Uddin Ahmed from Jatiya Party, and independent lawmakers Pankaj Nath, Md Hamidul Haque Khandker, Md Abul Kalam, Md Suhrab Uddin and Md Nasser Shahrear Zahedee鈥攑laced the cut motions.
They were, however, allowed to participate in the discussion on the law ministry, Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education and social welfare ministry.
Later, speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury quickened the process of passing the demands for grants for different ministries without giving a lunch break.
Opposition and independent lawmakers were present in the JS when the Appropriation Bill was passed and did not raise any objections to passing the bill.