The Finance Division will launch discussions with 58 ministries and divisions tomorrow to prepare the revised budget for the current financial year of 2025-26.
On the opening day, the budget wing under the Finance Division will meet with officials of the President鈥檚 Office, Posts and Telecommunications Division, Armed Forces Division, Parliament Secretariat, Ministry of Housing and Public Works and Anti-Corruption Commission.
The discussions will be concluded on November 30.
The Finance Division asked the ministries and divisions to keep updates, including expenditure, organogram, number of employees retiring from job, utility bills, land tax and programme under the revenue budget.
The interim government that announced the FY26 national budget expressed intention to revise it at least two months earlier than usual because of the next national election slated for February 2026.
On November 10, a joint-meeting of the coordination council and the budget management and resource committee decided to revise down the country鈥檚 gross domestic product growth to 5 per cent from 5.5 per cent for FY26.
It also made upward revision of inflation target to 7 per cent from the original 6.5 per cent.
Presided over by finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, the online meeting also set an initial estimate of cutting the size of the overall budget by Tk 20,000 crore from Tk聽7.9 lakh crore, said officials.
