UNB, Dhaka :The budget session (11th session) of the 10th parliament begins today (Wednesday) as the national budget for the fiscal year, which is likely to be of Tk 3.4 lakh crore (2016-17), to be placed the following day.This will be the third budget session of the current parliament which will begin at 5pm on the day.Finance Minister AMA Muhith will place the newnational budget on June 2. Before the House goes into session, the business advisory committee of parliament will sit in a meeting at 4pm to fix the duration and businesses of the coming session. Besides, a budget help desk will be opened at the 3rd level of Parliament at 3pm, Director (Public Relations) of Parliament Secretariat AM Motaher Hossen told UNB.On May 15, 2016 President Abdul Hamid summoned the session of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) exercising the power bestowed upon him as per the Article 72 (1) of the Constitution. Earlier, the 10th session of the 10th parliament began on April 24 and was prorogued on May 5 after only nine sittings that passed 14 bills.The size of the new budget is likely to be of Tk 3.4 lakh crore with a target of 7.2 percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth.
