JS help desk to provide MPs with budget information

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Bangla Tribune Desk
Published : 18:07, Jun 09, 2019 | Updated : 20:03, Jun 09, 2019

The TIB study says it costs Tk 163,686 per minute on an average to run a parliamentary session.The Jatiya Sangsad secretariat will launch budget information help desk on Tuesday (Jun 11) to assist the lawmakers for delivering their address at the first budget session of the 11th parliament, reports BSS.



With the cooperation of Budget Analysis and Monitoring Unit (BAMU), the
parliament secretariat will set up the desk at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, said a media release.
The secretariat has taken the initiative for providing assistance to the lawmakers for delivering their address on the budget issues, it said.
The lawmakers can collect important information from the help desk before addressing the session.
“The budget help desk will play an important role in delivering informative, constructive and lively speech that to be presented by the lawmakers,” the release added.
The budget session will begin on Jun 11.
It would be the third session of the 11th parliament and first one of the Awami League government which assumed office after a landslide victory through the December 30, 2018 national election.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will place the national budget for 2019-20 fiscal in the House on June 13, said a spokesman of the parliament secretariat.

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