People’s involvement in district budget demanded

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BSS, Tangail :
Speakers at a dialogue Saturday demanded to ensure more involvement and participation of local people in the district budget to gear up the development of the districts.
They also emphasized on the coordination between public representatives, local administration and government during formulation of the district budget.
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) organized the dialogue on pre-budget and district budget at Bureau Bangladesh auditorium.
Representatives of social, political, NGOs, local bodies and different professions took part at the dialogue. The government has been announcing district budget since two years and Tangail is one of those.
Tangail District Council Administrator and District Awami League general secretary Fazlur Rahman Khan Faruk was present at the dialogue as the chief guest.
Besides, CPD Distinguished Fellow Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, CDP Executive Director Mustafizur Rahman, former ambassador Anwarul Alam Shahid and Professor Mirza Abdul Momen, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Professor Sekandar Hayat chaired the dialogue while CPD Research Fellow Towfikul Islam Khan made keynote presentation.

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