No inessential big-budget programme over Mujib Borsho: PM

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed all the ministries and divisions not to take any unnecessary programme with big budgets on the occasion of Mujib Borsho on Monday.

While briefing reporters at the Secretariat, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam ensured that the Prime Minister came up with the directive a discussion after the weekly cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office in the city.

“If there’s any exceptional activity (programme), then providing extra money could be considered. But it doesn’t need to take a new programme with a big budget,” he quoted the Prime Minister as saying.

At the cabinet meeting, it was cited as an example that the Finance Division has taken a programme of Mujib Borsho declaring that it will ensure pension for six lakh pensioners at their doorsteps within December next, he said.

Like this programme of the Finance Division, a good programme can be declared as one programme of the Mujib Borsho, said the Cabinet Secretary.

Stressing that there is no need to take any new programme, the Prime Minister said if a ministry or division can ensure the wellbeing of people and better contribution to the development of the country with the existing ones, it will be more synonymous with the Mujib Borsho.

She suggested making the usual programmes more effective on the occasion of the Mujib Borsho, said Anwarul Islam.