Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said the government had plans to introduce pension facilities for the employees of private offices from the coming fiscal.
The minister made the remark while addressing a pre-budget discussion with the representatives of non-government organisations (NGOs) at his secretariat office. However, he did not clarify where the fund for the private sector pension scheme would be sourced from.
In reply to journalists’ query, he said the government would at first request and direct the prominent private sector organisations to take steps in this regard.
“If the firms in the private sector do not comply with the directive, the government would then move to enact a new law to ensure pension facilities for the private sector employees,” Muhith explained.
He also said the government was attaching special priority to four sectors – human resource, power and energy, agriculture and infrastructure.
Emphasising on the needs for enhancing productive efficiency and administrative reform, the minister admitted that the Awami League government had not brought any reform in the last five years.
Claiming that estimated inflation rate would 6% for the coming fiscal, he said the size of the coming budget would be Tk2,50,000 crore, with GDP growth target set at 7.3%. The size of the revised budget for the ongoing fiscal would be Tk 2,11,000 crore.
