Muhith\\\'s record

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has rewritten the country's history books when he started to propose the 43rd national annual budget in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) around 3pm today. Muhith has created history as he has been presenting his 6th budget in a row – a record in independent Bangladesh. Muhith, an Awami League MP elected from Sylhet-1 constituency in the January 5 polls, has become the 1st finance minister of post-independence Bangladesh who has already presented 5 budgets in the House and is now presenting a 6th. Muhith, who was at the helms of the same ministry in the previous (2009-2013) govt led by Sheikh Hasina and the regime in early ’80s under HM Ershad, is presenting the budget for the FY 2014-15 through a power-point presentation or digital method with an ambitious economic growth target of 7.3% through a substantial rise in government spending. The proposed budget will have an allocation of Tk 2.5 trillion (250,506 crore), the biggest national annual spending outlay. It will be the 15th budget of the Awami League governments and the 8th for Muhith as the head of the important ministry in the two successive AL-led governments and the Ershad regime. Muhith’s 1st budget of the present term would have an outline for the next 5 years of the development activities with a plan to make the country as a middle income one. Priority would be given from this budget to implement few mega projects like Padma Bridge, Dhaka-Chittagong 4-lane project and nine power plants, including Rooppur nuclear power plant. The will be passed on June 29, according to a news agency.