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Published : 11 Jun 2026, 05:13 PM
The BNP government has proposed a budget focusing on 10 main sectors, including prioritisation of universal education and healthcare.
Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury presented a massive Tk 9.38 trillion budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year in parliament at 3pm on Thursday.
It is the first budget since the BNP formed the government after its landslide win in the February election.
The 10 sector priorities noted in this budget are:
Development for All
To establish a non-discriminatory and inclusive economy by ensuring balanced participation and the partnership of all, including all classes, all sectors, and all regions.
Education and Healthcare for All
To help develop the young generation into qualified human resources by implementing a realistic, skill-based and value-based education system. It also wants to ensuring healthcare for all as a fundamental right.
Universal Social Security
Develop social safety programmes for citizens of all ages and classes through a universal safety net.
Employment and a Productive Economy
To create entrepreneurship, employment, and income growth opportunities for youth through planned industrialisation, export diversification and expansion of technology-based economic activities. To also establish agriculture as a strategic sector for production, livelihoods and national food security.
Deregulation and Cost-Effective Business Environment
Create a transparent, easy, cost-effective, and business-friendly environment by eliminating delays and unnecessary steps in government processing through deregulation.
Financial Sector Stability
Restore trust and responsibility of depositors by establishing discipline, transparency and accountability in the banking and financial sectors while encouraging investment through capital market reforms.
Energy Security
To ensure the uninterrupted supply of electricity and fuel to ensure continuity of productive activities, while also building energy capacity and security through an affordable, reliable, environmentally friendly power-fuel system.
Development of Information and Communication Technology
To transform Bangladesh into one of the world's leading ICT exporting countries by building a future-oriented, dynamic and technologically inclusive Bangladesh.
Life, Nature, Environment and Water Resources Management
To protect the country from the impacts of climate change and protect biodiversity, transform afforestation into a green revolution with public participation, restore the navigability of rivers and resume canal excavation programmes, along with environmental considerations in development activities, to build a sustainable, green and environmentally sustainable liveable future.
Transparent, Efficient and Accountable Institutions and Administration
To build a talent-based and accountable institutional and administrative system with the aim of building sustainable state capacity, and to make government spending and implementation efficient and effective.
The budget proposal states, "In the coming fiscal year, we want to bring comfort back to people's lives by reducing inflation to 7.5 percent and increasing economic growth to 6.5 percent, as well as establishing sustainable discipline in the economy. For this, the government has put forward this budget proposal while keeping 10 priorities in mind."
