Public Expenditure & Budget Tracking
Seminar on Budget 08-09 on 16th June 08
The
Governments has formulated a budget to meet the
daily needs,not future perspective.
"The Governments has
formulated a budget to meet the daily needs, it lacks the future
perspective. Debt servicing is the
highest allocation in the budget and development budget is less than deficit budget. So, this budget
can not give better result in the long
run." Said Dr. Atiur Rahman at a discussiond, on the proposed budget.
On 16 June 2008 SUPRO (Campaign for Good Governance) has organized a seminar titled `Budget 2008-09: A People’s Review’ at Ntional Press club , Dhaka .
Dr.Atiur Rahman ; Lt. Col. (Rtd) Faruque Khan, ex MP;
AKM Jahangir Hossain, ex MP; GM Qader,
ex MP; Lt Gen (Retd) Mahbubur Rahman, ex MP; Abdul Mannan ex minister and
President of Communist Party of
Bangladesh, Mujahidul Islam selim have made speech in that seminar. A position paper was presented by Mr. Lawrence
Besra, program Coordinator of SUPRO, in
the seminar to initiate the post-budget discussion. Mr. Ahmed Swopan Mahmood, Executive Borad member of SUPRO moderated
the seminar.