Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday (June 11) proposed a budget of Tk 95,574 crore in the social safety net programs for 2020-21 fiscal year which is 16.83 percent of the total budget and 3.01 percent of the GDP.
In last year's revised budget, the allocation was Tk. 81,865 crore.
"We have been increasing the allocation in the social security sector every year to improve the lives of the poor. By now, about one-fourth of families in the country have been brought under the social security program," Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal read in the budget speech.
