Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said the projected growth rate for the next fiscal is 'absolutely normal.'
"This is absolutely normal to have 7 percent growth target in the next fiscal after achieving a 6.7 percent growth in the current fiscal," he said after a meeting on foreign mission workforce on Tuesday.
The budget deficit of the last three budgets never crossed 5 percent and it was very much within the limit, he pointed out.
Asked about allowing black money to invest in the stock market, the finance minister refused to make any comment.
In his budget speech on June 9, Muhith proposed allowing investment of black money in treasury bond and BIFFL, but did not say anything about the stock market.
Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges are constantly pursuing the government to allow the unaccounted money to flow into the share market.
Muhith said the government is formulating laws on multilevel marketing (MLM).
"The government is yet to take any action against Unipay2U but a process is underway to recover money from Jubok," he said.
About foreign mission workforce, he said the government might increase the post of labour attaché.
"Now 12 missions have labour attachés with new approval for seven missions and the number is expected to go up," he said.
There are 20 commercial, seven economic and five-six information wings in the foreign missions, and the number will not increase gradually, he added.
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