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42.5 lakh Farmers’ Card. Each beneficiary would receive a yearly payment of Tk 2,500.

As many as 16,515 victims of the July uprising would also get allowances next fiscal year.

The families of 846 July martyrs would receive Tk 20,000 every month as honorariums, while 15,669 victims would get Tk 10,000 to Tk 20,000 every month based on three categories of injury.

Allocation will also be given for monthly honorariums and festival allowances to religious leaders of different faiths, one of the election pledges of the BNP to promote religious and social harmony.

The programme will have 255,666 beneficiaries next fiscal year, including imams, muezzins, khadems, priests, monks and caretakers of temples, churches and monasteries.

Imams would receive Tk 5,000, muezzins Tk 3,000 and khadems Tk 2,000. Similar stipends would be given to priests, monks, and caretakers of temples, churches, and monasteries.

The scheme for old-age persons and widows will get 1 lakh additional beneficiaries, taking the tally to 62 lakh.

Currently, the social security budget covers 95 programmes, of which 39 are identified as pro-poor, benefiting nearly 8 crore people. About Tk 117,000 crore has been allocated for social net programmes this fiscal year.

Development partners, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, have advised preparing the safety net budget in a more structured manner.