The proposed budget of 2011-12 has bypassed the development issues of the Chittagong city, stated speakers at a programme on Saturday.
They said this at a dialogue titled 'analysis of the national budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year,' jointly organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue and Bangladesh Economic Association at the Chittagong Club Auditorium.
'You'll find many things in the proposed budget except for the development issue of the port city,' said Lawmaker Mainuddin Khan Badal in his chief guest's address.
Khandaker Golam Moazzem, senior research fellow of CPD, presented the keynote paper on 'the state of the Bangladesh economy: analysis of the national budget FY2011-12.'
Former Chittagong University vice-chancellor Alamgir Mohammed Sirajuddin complained that all the successive governments had invariably ignored the development need of the port city.
Perhaps the policymakers have failed to realise the urgency of the issue in the light of the greater interest of the national economy, Mainuddin Khan Badal viewed.
With BEA Chittagong chapter president Joyti Prokash Datta in the chair, CPD executive director Mostafizur Rahman, former BEA president Moinul Islam, former BEA Chittagong chapter president Sikandar Khan and former Chittagong Chambers of Commerce and Industry president Farid Ahmed Chowdhury, spoke at the programme, among others.
Source : New Age
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