Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) has proposed an alternative budget estimated at around Tk 12 trillion for the next fiscal year 2024-25.
The proposed alternative budget is 1.57 times higher than the government budget in the running FY.
The BEA unveiled the proposal on Monday at a press conference titled Alternative Budget Proposal 2024-25: Improved Bangladesh Oriented Budget held at its office in the city Eskaton Garden area.
Under the chairmanship of Kazi Khalikuzzaman Ahmad, the general secretary of the Economics Association Ainul Islam presented the alternative budget.
A dilapidated old public bus was seen struggling to ascend Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in the city recently and finally managed to stabilise after emitting a thick layer of black smoke, making the surrounding air suffocating.
Before then, the bus exhaust caused irritation to passengers of other vehicles, and exposed serious health hazards due to inhaling such polluted air.
Air quality specialist Prof Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder told The Shuttle Times that the unfit buses emit harmful smoke while ascending to the flyovers and elevated expressways or roads as the old engines do not have the capacity to run properly.
State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Md Mohibbur Rahman on Sunday said the losses caused by Cyclone Remal was estimated at 6,880 crore by his ministry.
The state minister said this after an inter-ministerial meeting held at the secretariat on the overall issue of the cyclone.
Another inter-ministerial meeting will be held on June 9 to assess the overall damages caused by the cyclone, he said.
“We will finalise the list of losses of all ministries by holding another inter-ministerial meeting on June 9. It will then be handed over to the prime minister,” he said.
Evaly Chief Executive Officer Mohammad Rassel and his wife, Evaly Chairman Shamima Nasrin, were sentenced to one year in jail in a cheque dishonour case.
The couple has also been fined Tk1,80,000.
Joint District and Sessions Judge of Chattogram Md. Mohiuddin handed down the imprisonment in the case filed in 2021 by a customer of the scam-tainted e-commerce platform.