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to Tk 20,000 every month based on three categories of injury, while the families of 844 July martyrs would receive Tk 20,000 every month as honorariums.

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.

A new programme under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) scheme will provide cash equivalent to 110,000 tonnes of rice to 15 lakh poor working people under an integrated policy.

Another programme will provide 15,000 unemployed workers with a monthly allowance of Tk 5,000 for up to three months, which will cost about Tk 25 crore.

Among the existing programmes, the number of beneficiaries of old-age and widow allowances is being increased by 100,000 each, and the allowance is being raised by Tk 50 to Tk 700 per month. Currently, 61 lakh people receive old-age allowance and 29 lakh receive widow allowance.

The disability allowance is being increased by Tk 100 to reach Tk 1,000 per month. On the other hand, the number of beneficiaries is being increased by about 250,000 to 38 lakh.

The education allowance for students with disabilities is being increased from Tk 1,000 to Tk 1,400.

In addition, the number of beneficiaries under the mother and child support programme is being increased by more than 100,000. However, the allowance remains at Tk 850.

In the upcoming budget, the allocation for financial assistance in the treatment of serious diseases like cancer, kidney and liver ailments will be increased to Tk 700 crore, and the maximum assistance may rise to Tk 1 lakh from the existing Tk 50,000.

For freedom fighters, the number of beneficiaries and allowances will remain the same, but only the categories of Bir Shreshtha, Bir Uttam, Bir Bikram and Bir Protik will see their allowances increase by Tk 5,000.

Currently, these allowances range from Tk 20,000 to Tk 35,000 per month. At present, 589 individuals across these four categories receive allowances.

Meanwhile, on June 11, along with the budget for fiscal 2026–27, a separate social safety net budget document will be published outlining the five-year plan and detailed strategies for the social protection sector, the finance ministry officials said.