The government is likely to allocate Tk12,403.85 crore for the Ministry of Home Affairs in the 2015-16 fiscal budget with a 9.22% jump over last year’s outlay.
However, this will be Tk338.79 crore lower than the amount that the ministry had got in the outgoing 2014-15 fiscal year’s revised budget, sources said.
Initially, the home ministry got Tk11,357 crore in the budget which was later revised to Tk12,742.63 crore. The additional amount was mostly spent for the import of arms and ammunition and the elevated fuel cost during the political turmoil earlier this year.
Officials said that in the upcoming fiscal year, at least 10 development projects will be implemented by the home ministry including the specialised burn hospital, construction of a central jail at Keraniganj in the outskirts of Dhaka. This jail will house only the under-trial criminals.
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that the specialised burn hospital will come into operation in January 2016.
Of the allocation that the ministry is likely to get in the upcoming budget, Tk1,188.66 crore will be used for development projects including 85 new BGB posts along the border, seven new RAB complexes, renovation of a total of 101 old police station buildings and 156 fire service centres in some of the important sub-regions.
The government will also continue a number of ongoing projects. These are: the integration of machine readable passport (MRP) and machine readable visa; and two Fire Service and Civil Defence projects for the development of air building and gas fire fighting galleries and modernisation of fire securities and civil defence projects.
Three hospitals will be constructed under Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Chuadanga, Thakurgaon and Khagrachhari districts.
