Finance minister AMA Muhith on Monday said railway would get top priority in the next budget as there was no scope for construction of new roads.
Building of fresh roads has come to a point of saturation, he told reporters after a meeting with representatives of the country’s leading non-governmental organisations in the evening.
The minister, however, said upgrading and maintenance of the road network would continue.
He said the railway network would be developed further across the county to boost transportation of goods with freight trains.
He said they were likely to introduce district budgets, at least for one district, in the new national budget on an experimental basis.
Earlier while tabling the first budget of the present government in 2009-10, Muhith had announced to introduce district budgets. But there has been no substantial progress in this regard in the past four years.
He observed that there was no ‘justification’ for the monthly payment order system under which the government provides allowances to hundreds of non-government school and college teachers.
He said the system was not a positive one, claiming the quality of secondary education had dropped due to the MPO. He, however, said the quality of primary education had improved.
The minister said, unlike the previous years, the finance ministry was facing less pressure in laying out the new budget to be announced in the first week of June.
He, however, warned that the ongoing political unrest and hartals enforced by opposition political parties might create problems for finalising the new budget. (Source)
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