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Budget in JS

No more long speech this time

Staff Correspondent
Finance Minister AMA Muhith will present the budget for the next fiscal year in parliament on June 10 through a power point presentation, instead of making a traditional long speech.
This is the first time when a finance minister will use modern technology to unveil
the budgetary proposals in the House. He will also deliver a brief speech highlighting some of the major proposals.
Deputy Speaker Col (retd) Shawkat Ali told The Daily Star about the decision taken yesterday at a Business Advisory Committee's (Bac) meeting with Speaker Abdul Hamid in the chair.
The deputy speaker added that the minister is not even physically fit to read out the voluminous speech.
According to the Bae's decision, the budget session that began yesterday will continue until July 20. The House will sit at 4:00pm every day except for holidays. However, the speaker has the authority to increase or decrease the timeframe of the current session.
The House will hold discussions of total 40 hours on both supplementary and proposed budget.
“The supplementary budget will be passed on June 14, after discussions on it on June 13 and June 14,” Shawkat said.
The deputy speaker also said discussions on the proposed budget will begin on June 15, and the House will pass it on June 30.
The main opposition BNP did not join the Bae's meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
Meanwhile, the Jatiya Sangsad introduced a digital system on a limited scale yesterday to maintain the time limit given to lawmakers for their speeches.
Time allocation for the lawmakers is being displayed on an electronic board in the House.
When a lawmaker is allowed to speak, the board shows his time limit, and, as he starts speaking the countdown begins. The microphone will automatically get switched off when the board shows the time limit dropping to zero.
Prior to the disposal of call attention notices yesterday, Speaker Abdul Hamid who was presiding over the sitting remindeef the MPs about the newsystem.
Previously time allocation was maintained manually using stopwatch. Yellow bulb used to be on a few seconds before the time limit was about to finish while red one on at the time when the speaker crossed the time limit