Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday placed the proposed national budget for the 2023-24 fiscal in Parliament with a deficit of Tk 2,61,785 crore and a focus on making a Smart Bangladesh, with an annual growth target of 7.5 percent.
The government aims to build a "Smart Bangladesh" by 2041, but without fixing our faulty public education system, how far can it achieve this goal? The human resources for Bangladesh's future are being short-changed at the primary education level, finds The Daily Star through visits to several schools right in the heart of the capital.