BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a pre-budget discussion here Tuesday emphasized the for giving top priority to the region’s agriculture and agri-processing, education, health, food security and poverty alleviation in the forthcoming national budget of fiscal 2015-16.
They viewed that enhanced priority and subsidy to the sector of agriculture along with its subsectors and income generation could be the effective means of boosting its field level outputs leading to food security.
Local unit of Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) organized the discussion styled “Pre-budget Discussion 2015-16” held at General Public Library in the city. “Equity-based, justice, poor-friendly development in the forthcoming budget and five-year plan” was the main theme of the discussion.
Former Chairman of Rajshahi Education Board Prof Nurul Alam and Associate Professor Rashed Kabir of Finance and Banking Department of Rajshahi University addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with Akbarul Hassan Millat, President of CGG local unit, the chair.
CGG local unit general secretary Azizur Rahman welcomed the participants while programme facilitator Tahera Khatun presented a concept paper on the issue.
The speakers mentioned that the budget should be pro-people and welfare-oriented so that it could bring economic emancipation of the people in general.
They underscored the need for giving priority to agriculture, food security and agro-based industries in the budget for Rajshahi region.
To take the agriculture sector and its value addition business more advanced, there is no alternative to an investment-friendly atmosphere for attracting the entrepreneurs towards agro-processing industries in the region as its economy is completely dependent on agriculture, they mentioned.
The speakers reiterated that it is an age-old demand of the region’s people that all the development works should be balanced in the country but the northern region remained utterly neglected and no government in the past made any effort to change the lot of its people.
They urged the government to identify the local needs through proper assessment everywhere in the region and bring those under budgetary allocation for the sake of a balanced development of the country.
Taking part in the open discussion, most of the participants said some vital sectors of the region like setting up an agro-based export processing zone, revitalization of the silk, enriching surface water resources and facing the adverse impact of climate change should be brought under the budgetary allocation.
Terming the sectors as vital for accelerating the region’s financial condition, they put emphasis on special attention to those.
Speakers at a pre-budget discussion here Tuesday emphasized the for giving top priority to the region’s agriculture and agri-processing, education, health, food security and poverty alleviation in the forthcoming national budget of fiscal 2015-16.
They viewed that enhanced priority and subsidy to the sector of agriculture along with its subsectors and income generation could be the effective means of boosting its field level outputs leading to food security.
Local unit of Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) organized the discussion styled “Pre-budget Discussion 2015-16” held at General Public Library in the city. “Equity-based, justice, poor-friendly development in the forthcoming budget and five-year plan” was the main theme of the discussion.
Former Chairman of Rajshahi Education Board Prof Nurul Alam and Associate Professor Rashed Kabir of Finance and Banking Department of Rajshahi University addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with Akbarul Hassan Millat, President of CGG local unit, the chair.
CGG local unit general secretary Azizur Rahman welcomed the participants while programme facilitator Tahera Khatun presented a concept paper on the issue.
The speakers mentioned that the budget should be pro-people and welfare-oriented so that it could bring economic emancipation of the people in general.
They underscored the need for giving priority to agriculture, food security and agro-based industries in the budget for Rajshahi region.
To take the agriculture sector and its value addition business more advanced, there is no alternative to an investment-friendly atmosphere for attracting the entrepreneurs towards agro-processing industries in the region as its economy is completely dependent on agriculture, they mentioned.
The speakers reiterated that it is an age-old demand of the region’s people that all the development works should be balanced in the country but the northern region remained utterly neglected and no government in the past made any effort to change the lot of its people.
They urged the government to identify the local needs through proper assessment everywhere in the region and bring those under budgetary allocation for the sake of a balanced development of the country.
Taking part in the open discussion, most of the participants said some vital sectors of the region like setting up an agro-based export processing zone, revitalization of the silk, enriching surface water resources and facing the adverse impact of climate change should be brought under the budgetary allocation.
Terming the sectors as vital for accelerating the region’s financial condition, they put emphasis on special attention to those.
