MPs to get info to better deliberations
The Parliament Secretariat from now on will provide lawmakers with useful and reliable information assisting them to improve their budgetary deliberations in the House and to scrutinise budget in the committees effectively.
A Budget Analysis and Monitoring Unit (BAMU) has been set up under the Parliament Secretariat to this effect aimed at strengthening budgetary oversight capacity of Jatiya Sangsad.
The BAMU will provide lawmakers with timely facts, non-partisan data, and analysis on budget to promote strong and independent parliamentary oversight to ensure good governance, says a document of the unit.
According to the BAMU document, it will also respond to different queries of MPs, prepare mid-term and annual budget review and economic forecasting.
“I strongly believe that this unit will develop in-house expertise in supporting its efforts to analyse and monitor the preparation and implementation of the national budgets. It will help our MPs to facilitate their oversight of national budgets and monitoring of government expenditure,” Speaker Abdul Hamid said yesterday.
The speaker was speaking at a ceremony at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises during the launch of an office of BAMU in the parliament building.
US ambassador James F Moriarty in his address said the United States government has had a long and close relationship with Bangladesh assisting the people and the government of Bangladesh by providing support on a range of issues.
“Our efforts have focused on issues that the people and the government of Bangladesh have identified as most important and critical. The Budget Analysis and Monitoring Unit is an example of such efforts,” the US ambassador said.
Ruling AL lawmaker Ali Ashraf and chief of party of USAID PROGOTI Hugh C Orozco, among others, spoke at the function presided over by Secretary Ashfaq Hamid of Parliament Secretariat.
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