The national budget for the 2025-26 financial year will be announced on the first Monday of June instead of the traditional announcement day, the first Thursday of the month, due to the celebration of Eid-ul-Azha, a religious festival of the Muslims, Finance Division officials said.
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has already given his consent to the change, they said.
The officials said that the announcement schedule was changed due to Eid-ul-Azha likely to be celebrated in the country on June 6, subject to the sighting of Zil-Hajj moon.
The first Monday of June falls on June 2 and the first Thursday on June 5.
The announcement will have to be brought forward for uninterrupted post-budget activities, the officials said.
They said that since the country鈥檚 independence in 1971 the announcement of the national budget had been made on the first Thursday of June.
The finance adviser is expected to announce the FY26 national budget in a televised programme in the absence of a parliament.
He has already stated on a number of occasions that the new budget would be a realistic one, leaving footprints for an elected government to follow.
It has been reported that the interim government is going to bring about major changes in the national budget by squeezing expenditure because of resource crunches.
It may announce a downsized outlay of Tk 7.9 lakh crore to reduce dependency on borrowing to meet budget deficit.
Before being ousted from power in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, the Awami League government had announced a Tk聽7.97 lakh crore budget for FY25.
However, the interim government in March 2025 revised down the overall outlay to Tk聽7.4 lakh crore after a cut in the annual development programme by Tk 49,000 crore to Tk 2.16 lakh crore from initial Tk 2.65 lakh crore.
