Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud says at ERF event

Physical works of two mega infrastructure projects involving around Tk 70,000 crore will get underway this week, setting off a flurry of activities for the next several years.

The largest ever private investment in Bangladesh’s power and energy sectors worth US $3 billion – around Tk 24,000 crore – is coming to facelift the country’s basic infrastructure.

The size of the upcoming budget may go up by 30 percent from the current fiscal year's revised outlay as the government seeks to fast-track the giant projects and complete one or two in its current tenure. The planned Tk 340,600 crore budget for fiscal 2016-17 would be 17.4 percent of the gross domestic product. In terms of share in the GDP, the planned budget is almost the same as the budget of fiscal 2015-16.