POBNEWS24, Dhaka May 30, 2023 : The budget session of the National Parliament will begin at 5 pm on Wednesday (May 31). This is the 23rd session of the ongoing 11th National Parliament. The proposed national budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2023-24 will be presented in this session on Thursday (June 1).
will last will be decided in the working advisory committee meeting of the parliament. The meeting of this committee will be held at 4 pm before the beginning of this session. In addition to the working day, the meeting will decide on the time of budget presentation, discussion time on supplementary and main budget, date of budget passage.
It is known that actor Abkar Hossain Pathan Farooq, who was nominated by Awami League from Dhaka-11 Constituency, died on May 15 while undergoing treatment in Singapore. For this reason, the meeting will be adjourned after the discussion on the condolence proposal on the first day of the parliament session.
Prior to this the presidium will be nominated and presented at the question and answer table. When a member of the current parliament dies, a condolence motion is discussed in the parliament. Later, the meeting was adjourned according to the custom after accepting the condolence proposal and prayers.
The agenda for Wednesday’s (May 31) meeting includes questions from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the Ministry of Industries, the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Department of Power, apart from the Prime Minister’s question and answer.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will present the proposed budget on Thursday (June 1). According to the Parliament Secretariat, the proposed budget will be passed on June 25.
Every year the budget is passed on or before June 30 (June 29), the last working day of the financial year, but this time it will be passed a little earlier due to Eid al-Adha. President Md. Shahabuddin convened the 23rd session of Parliament on May 14 with constitutional powers.
