Disability allowance may go up

The allowance for people with physical impairments may be increased through the next budget for fiscal year 2023-24, Planning Minister MA Mannan said yesterday. 

No other allowance will be increased, he quoted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as saying.

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Addressing an event organised by the Citizen's Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka, Mannan said, "It is just a support for them, not payment. It would be a tool to change their situation."

The announcement will come from the finance minister and now the change is being drafted, he said.

Currently, every beneficiary gets a monthly allowance of Tk 850, he added.