The Jatiya Sangsad on Tuesday passed a Tk 5,68,000 crore national budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year with a target of attaining 8.2 per cent GDP growth.

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal moved the Appropriations Bill 2020 to the House seeking a budgetary allocation of Tk 7,59,642.44 crore which was passed by voice vote.

Following the proposal mooted in the JS by the finance ministry for the parliamentary approval of appropriation of fund for meeting necessary development and non-development expenditures of the government, the ministers concerned placed justifications for the expenditures by their respective ministries, through 59 demands for grants.

Nine members of parliament from Jatiya Party and Bangladesh Nationalist Party submitted their cut-motions on the budget. They were– Kazi Firoze Rashid, Mujibul Huq, Fakhrul Imam, Pir Fazlur Rahman, Shamim Haider Patwari, Liaquat Hossain Khoka, Begum Rawshan Ara Mannan, Harun Ur Rashid and Rumeen Farhana. They, however, were allowed to participate in the discussion on Law Ministry and Health Ministry.