Khulna Chamber of commerce and Industry (KCCI), entrepreneurs and leaders of different socio-cultural organisations and political parties today hailed the proposed budget for the 2024–2025 fiscal year (FY) as pragmatic and development-oriented.
This budget is a step towards turning the country into a developed one by 2041, they commented.
While hailing the proposed budget, the Khulna Awami League and its associate organisations brought out a pleasure procession last evening that paraded the city's main streets. Awami League city unit general secretary M. D. Babul Rana led the procession.
In an instant reaction, Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Talukder Abdul Khaleque said the country's development and dream achievements will go ahead in the proposed budget.
Khaleque, who is also the president of city unit AL, said the pro-people budget would play a significant role in boosting the economy, alleviating poverty, improving quality education, health, agriculture, and industrial sectors, and empowering women, thereby establishing a smart Bangladesh.
In the budget reaction, President Kazi Aminul Haque termed the proposed budget for FY25 as a business, agriculture, education, health, investment-friendly, development-oriented, and wellbeing budget for people.
"There are a lot of new dimensions incorporated into the budget to cope with the present economic situation and industrialization," he added.
The President of the Khulna Unnyan Sangram Somonnya Committee, Sheikh Ashrafuzzaman, termed the proposed budget highly ambitious and development-oriented, which would create opportunities for businessmen and the private sector.
He also thanked the government for increasing the social safety net for the people of rural areas and the rootless and landless people of the country.
