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Dhaka: The eighth five-year plan (21-25) will get final approval with the huge challenge of 16 lakh crore 80 thousand jobs. Of this, 35 lakh jobs will be created in exile, the remaining 61 lakh 70 thousand jobs will be created in the country.
The total employment target in the Seventh Five-Year Plan was 1 crore 29 lakhs. But 95 lakhs of jobs have been created in five years. Of this, 60 lakh are at home and 35 lakh are abroad. As such, to achieve the goal, it will be necessary to create more than 22 lakh people.
This time, loan assistance will be provided to cover the cost of accurate information, training and immigration to create opportunities to send workers abroad from backward districts.
The goal has been set to create jobs for 21 lakh 80 thousand people in 2021, 22 lakh 30 thousand in 2022, 23 lakh 30 in 23, 24 lakh 20 in 24 and 25 lakh 30 thousand in 2025.
In the last fiscal year 2019-20, the government had set a growth target of 7.20 percent for gross domestic product (GDP). The global coronavirus epidemic (Kovid-19) has not achieved that goal. In that fiscal year, growth of 5.24 percent has been achieved. In the Eighth Five-Year Plan, the GDP growth goal is set at 7.51 percent.
The eighth five-year plan will be presented for final approval at the NEC meeting in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Tuesday (December 29). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will preside. The plan calls for the return of health, confidence, employment, income and economic activities from the Corona epidemic. At the same time, the emphasis has been on rapid growth, job creation and rapid poverty reduction.
An inclusive strategy has been adopted to ensure the participation and benefit of all citizens in the development process and to provide assistance to the poor and disadvantaged under the social security program. The formulation of a roadmap for sustainable development has been adopted, which will be tolerant to disasters and climate change and sustainable planning. An important role will be played in the new plan to bring the Bangladeshi economy to Qatar, an upper-middle-income country by 2031.
The eighth five-year plan sets out strategies to tackle poverty in backward areas. In backward districts, the social security diversion program will be given high priority and the number of beneficiaries will be increased. In these districts, more emphasis has been placed on agricultural research and extension services to increase agricultural productivity and increase incomes.
The eighth five-year plan sets the goal of creating 1.16 billion new jobs in the next five years. However, this employment target is 1.3 million less than the Seventh Five-Year Plan. Many of the goals of the Seventh Five-Year Plan have not been met. Who has found a place in the Eighth Fifth Anniversary Plan.
According to the Seventh Five-Year Plan, the total employment target for the last five years (2016-20) was 1 crore 29 lakh. The goal was to create 1 crore 9 lakh of domestic employment and 20 lakh of foreign employment. However, after five years, the target has not been met, jobs of 95 lakh have been created, of which 60 lakh are domestic and 35 lakh are abroad. The eighth five-year plan will be presented at the NEC meeting this time amid the uncertainty of the Corona period. The plan has prioritized job creation.
In this context, Planning Minister MA Mannan told banglanews that the whole world is in uncertainty during the Crown. But the plan will not stop. We have embarked on the eighth and fifth anniversary plan. Hopefully Tuesday happens. I will create 1 crore 16 lakh 70 thousand total employment. Of this, 35 lakh are in exile. If I cannot, I will fulfill it in the Ninth Fifth Annual Plan.
The growth target has been set at 7.51 percent in the Eighth-Fifth Annual Plan. In this continuity, the GDP growth rate has been set at 7.20% in fiscal year 21, 7.22% in fiscal year 22, 7.29% in fiscal year 23, 7.32% in fiscal year 24 and 7.51. % in 25
The general inflation target for the current financial year has been set at 5.5 percent. From 2021-22 to 2024-25, inflation will drop to 5.4 percent, 5.3 percent, 5.2 percent, 4.9 percent and in the last fiscal year 2024-25 to 4.6 percent. hundred.
Bangladesh time: 2144 hours, December 26, 2020
MIS / AJ
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