Rejaul Karim Byron

After an 11-year gap, the government is set to provide Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) with a Tk 4,500 crore interest-free loan to help ensure uninterrupted fuel supplies.

The government is considering issuing a sovereign bond of up to $1 billion to the international capital market to diversify its funding sources.

The government had budgeted Tk 42,000 crore for electricity and LNG subsidies in the ongoing 2026-27 fiscal year, but it has already released nearly Tk 19,000 crore in the first three months.

Bangladesh’s recent easing of inflation may prove short-lived, with higher fuel prices, the new public-sector pay scale, energy shortages, and persistent supply-side problems threatening to keep price pressures elevated.

Unreliable energy supplies, logistics constraints and lengthy regulatory and approval procedures are further dampening investment demand

The implementation of the new pay scale’s basic salary in two phases will cost the government Tk 37,372 crore, covering civil, defence services and judicial personnel, alongside pensioners, according to a preliminary estimate of the finance division.

Housing allowance, the second-largest component of gross salary, has been reduced as a percentage of basic pay under the new public sector pay scale.

Tk 15,691cr spent, but Payra Port activities far below its commercial potential