Dhaka, May 3 -- An upscale amount of foreign aid worth Tk 1.0 trillion is planned to support Bangladesh's development budget in the upcoming fiscal year, which analysts think would bump up the country's external debt burden.

Officials say the government estimation of foreign-aid component of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) for FY 2024-25 is 20-percent higher than that in the outgoing fiscal year, FY2024.

The Economic Relations Division (ERD) has already prepared the Tk 1.0-trillion project aid (PA) budget allocating the funds against different foreign-funded projects under the upcoming ADP, they add.

The proposed fund is 19.76-percent higher than the Tk 835 billion PA allocation in the ongoing Revised ADP (RADP) and 6.38-percent...