Dhaka, Dec 29 (UNB) - Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has claimed that the mass people of the country are now financially doing well overcoming the Covid-19 fallouts as the government has taken various effective initiatives.
“My belief is that people are now in a better financial condition, and they can afford to pay,” he said on Wednesday, disagreeing with the idea that people have lost affordability to pay any increased tariff for electricity.
The finance minister’s comments came in response to a question how could the people afford if electricity tariff has further been raised as his ministry has moved a proposal in this regard.
He was briefing reporters about the outcomes of the two consecutive meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase (CCPP) and Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).