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Passage of supplementary budget delayed

By Staff Correspondent
Finance Minister Satfur Rahman said on Sunday that gradual reduction of dependence on foreign aid was necessary to lead the country towards self-reliance.
Rounding up the discussion on the supplementary budget in the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) yesterday Saifur Rahman said that the nation would have to decide whether it wanted development or not. He said that without increasing taxes self-reliance could not be achieved.
The people of the country will have to sacrifice a lot to bring about a financial discipline and lead the country towards prosperity,' he added.
He said that the supplementary expenditure of 463 crore Taka including only Taka 10 crore against revenue expenditure was spent during the rule of Ershad and the last six months of the interim government and the present gov ernment.
He said that most of the money was spent for development activities and that the members should be glad the spending did not involve any non-development sector.
The Finance Minister said that to give continuity to the development activities of the country the present government would have to pass the
expenditure as It had to be done in 1972 after the independence of the nation.
At that time the donor agencies imposed a criteria that the country would have to take the burden of previous loans for continuation of the development programme.
Saifur Rahman said that the BNP did not want to keep what Ershad wanted to do. but because of a compulsion as a member of the United Nations organs, the IMF and the World Bank there has to be some continuity in this regard'. It would have to be passed by the Awaml League government if it had been in power now. he added.
He said that there might be a large expenditure under many heads but the members of the parliament would have to see whether there was transparency of transaction of the expenditure or whether the money was misused.
The Finance Minister said that before the formation of the government 'we' were in the field and fought against the autocratic regime, now he added, we are trying to go for a democratic system and this is the time to work together to institutionalise democracy.
Discussion on the supplementary budget concluded yesterday but the budget could not be passed as the relevant ministry did not issue the demand notice as was necessary for its passage.
UNB adds: Deputy Speaker Sheikh Razzak All suspended the passage of the supplementary budget for 1990-91.
The Deputy Speaker did not allow it on technical grounds.
The Deputy Speaker said that additional expenditures of the supplementary budget should be placed In the House under different heads showing the expenditures in different sectors. And after that the supplementary budget would be adopted by the House, he added.
The Deputy Speaker re-' ferred to Rules 123 and Chapter 11 of Constitution in support of his decision. He also suspended the passage of the supplementary budget under Rules 114.
Yesterdays-^fscussion on the supplementary bill was participated by Zamlruddln Sircar State Minister for Land and BNP MPs Abdullah Wajed. Jahanara Begum and Abdul Gani.
Opposition MPs Mattya Chowdhury (AL) Mohammad Nasim (AL), Shajahan Slraj (JSD). Abdur Rouf (AL) Shamsuddoha (CPB) Shahadat Hossain (Jamaat) and others^ also took part. ’
Zamiruddin Sircar said that in view of the political and his torical necessary, the bill should be passed.
Shamsuddoha of CPB said that the opposition would not take the responsibility of what he said would increase the miseries of the common peo Pie-