Bangladesh, June 26 -- The South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) has urged the government to address critical allocation disparities and structural gaps in the newly proposed national budget for fiscal year FY2026-27, warning that certain provisions risk locking the country into long-term fossil fuel dependence despite ambitious green transition targets.
Sanem noted that although the government has identified energy security as one of its ten strategic priorities, the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources received Tk17,345 crore, accounting for 1.85per cent of the total budget, down from 2.15per centin the revised FY2025-26 budget, according to a media release issued on Thursday.
To maintain countrywide energy sta...