Adviser to the interim government on the ministries of finance and commerce Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday categorically said that the government would not allow anyone for generating black money anymore.
鈥極ur decision is clear, there will be no scope to generate black money anymore,鈥� he said.
The adviser said this while responding to a question after holding a view-exchange meeting with the UN representatives in Bangladesh held at the economic relations division conference room in Dhaka鈥檚 Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
The former Bangladesh Bank governor said that if there was any scope, then black money would be generated.
He said that siphoning of money to abroad would also be stopped. 鈥榃e are taking moves to bring back the siphoned of money.鈥�
Salehuddin mentioned that the Bangladesh Bank was working on it. If there was any need of legal assistance the government was there to provide.
Asked about the possibility of revising the budgetary provision in this regard, he said that it was not high time to speak over the matter adding that the budgetary matters would be reviewed later.
Replying to another question on the possibility of seeking additional support from the International Monetary Fund, Salehuddin said that he along with the concerned secretaries and central bank governor would take part in the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group in October where the issue might be discussed.
He said that the government would set the priorities first before taking loans citing that a one-year project could not be unnecessarily extended to five years as it would put burden of loans on the government. 鈥榃e鈥檙e seeking support not for wasting or misusing those.鈥�
Turning to the ongoing movements by various quarters to press home their various demands to minimise discriminations, the adviser said that they couldn鈥檛 ignore such discriminations.
鈥楾hey [protesters] were suppressed for so long and couldn鈥檛 heal their pain. None pay heed to them, and for which we didn鈥檛 deter them.聽 If the previous government was in place, then none could go to them.鈥�
The adviser said that the government would try to address those as all problems could not be solved immediately since it was associated with some process and implications.
Asked about the meeting outcomes with the UN representatives, he said that the government highlighted its goal for attaining equal-based development, pursuing growth, ensuring development in the women, gender, health and education sectors.
鈥極n the whole, our priorities are aligned with their programmes ...we want the UN agencies to support us in our priority areas. It鈥檚 not like that we鈥檒l accept support in all projects whatever they suggest.鈥�
鈥楾he government wants equal-based sustainable development for the general people where the concerned UN agencies would support the government,鈥� he continued.
He informed that the government also sought special focus of the UN agencies especially from UNHCR on the forcibly displaced Rohingyas.
Salehuddin said that the UN agencies had also given some ideas related to various ministries and divisions while those would be shared to the concerned ministries and divisions later.
The meeting was also discussed about the post-flood rehabilitation operations.
ERD secretary Md Shahriar Kader Siddiky and country director of International Labour Organization and Ad interim UN resident coordinator in Bangladesh Tuomo Poutiainen spoke, among others, at the meeting.