Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said
today that the budget of the fiscal year 2021-2022 will be dedicated to the
poor where people's livelihood will be given the utmost importance.
"The aim of the government is to
alleviate poverty by lifting people out of it," the minister said on
Wednesday while talking to the reporters after the virtual cabinet committee
meeting on public procurement.
He said, "We are taking measures to
create pathways out of poverty which will upgrade the status of some people
from extreme poverty."
According to the report of two private
research institutes, PPRC and BIGD, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused some 2.5
crore people to fall below the line of poverty and the debt burden has doubled
for people living in both urban and rural areas.
Upon being asked about the latest research findings, the finance minister said, "We will only accept the data after they are monitored and assessed by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)."
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