Opposition parliamentarians on the first day of the budget debate in the Jatiya Sangsad criticised the government's amnesty to bring back black money from abroad. Jatiya Party's Shamim Haider Patwary vehemently opposed the impunity to bringing back laundered money. Through corruption and robbing banks, some people earned money and siphoned off the money abroad, he
Economists, health experts and lawmakers at a programme said that the out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure could be lowered to 51% from the present 68% by raising the health budget allocation by three times and recruiting health workers in the vacant positions. "By tripling the allocations for the medical and surgical supplies sub-sector of the health budget and by filling up all