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Jatiya Sangsad passes supplementary budget

By Staff Correspondent
The Jatiya Sangsad yesterday passed the Appropriation (amendment) Bill, 1997, seeking a total of Tk 2.250 crore, 68 lakh and 29 thousand to meet the additional expenditure in fiscal 1996-’97 that ends on the 30th of this month. .
The size of the original budget for 1996-'97 _ passed on September 1 last year — was Tk
25.306 crore. 14 lakh and 55 thousand.
In the supplementary budget, the sector-wise allocation is: Tk 10,64,80,000 for government organs, Tk 61,48.60,000 for education. Tk 43.58,10.000 for retirement allowance and other benefits, Tk 18,30.57.000 for agriculture. Tk 1.61.00.00.000 for subsidy. Tk 210,81.25,000 for food for work programme and Tk 196,62.20.000 capital investment for rural development projects.
Before the passage of the supplementary budget, the House witnessed last week a two-day debate on it. The opposition members then strongly criticised the government for the additional expenditure.
, . Besides, the opposition lawmakers yesterday moved a total of 940 cut thotions against 130 demands for grants, involving the additional expenditures. The cut motions were rejected through voice vote.
Speaker Humayun Rashid Chowdhury allowed discussions
on eight cut motions. The Chair then applied certain provisions of the Rules of Procedure of the Jatiya Sangsad to guillotine the remaining cut motions.
While discussing the cut motions. the BNP legislators were especially vocal against the grants sought for government officials. They were also very critical of other grants, particularly the grants for the finance ministry. A number of BNP legislators. however, appreciated the 'sincerity' of the Law Minister and the Agriculture Minister. On the performances of the Home Minister, the opposition MPs observed that he was a "s-incere person' but it seemed that he could not discharge his responsibilities properly due to 'party pressure’.
The issue of share market scam, law and order, crisis in industrial sector, export and import and allocation for new pay scale also came up for discussion, mainly participated by BNP lawmakers.
BNPs Ziaul Huq Zia said-de-. spite absence of political unrest during the last one year, export import showed a downward trend. "If BNP did not do good, why Awami League also will not do it?" he questioned.
Prof Shahidul Islam of the same party raised the issue of share market scam and criti-
cised the government for handling the crisis inefficiently.
Chief Whip Abul Hasnat Abdullah said the opposition members were engaged in making personal attacks on ministers using unpleasant words and urged the Speaker to expunge those.
Speaker Humayun Rashid Chowdhury assured the Chief Whip that all the unparliamentary words will be expunged.
Major (retd) Akhtaruzzaman of BNP said they were not making personal attacks on ministers. "Ministers are not only persons. They are institutions. So. if necessary, we must speak against them and this is why we’ve come here."
Finance Minister Shah A M S Kibria said this year export growth was 14 per cent. It might nave been better if there were no wrongdoings in the past, he said, referring to the issuance of fake GSP certificates under the previous government.
Kibria said the duty -draw back procedure has been simplified to facilitate export. The nation witnessed such a large scale corruption in the last five years, that never happened in the past, he added.
The government has introduced self assessment procedure for income tax and corporate tax as a 'revolutionary reform'