Terming the proposed budget of 2020-21 FY traditional, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a leading think tank, on Friday said  alleviating poverty, discrimination and creating employment should have been given priority in the budget instead of GDP growth.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) has observed that the targeted revenue of Tk 378,000 in the proposed budget will be difficult to collect due to the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.