The finance minister, M Saifur Rahman, is set to present on Thursday a Tk 69,740 crore budget, the last of the incumbent government, for the next fiscal year.
  
The outlay is about 14 per cent higher than the current revised one, finance ministry sources told New Age. The Tk 64,300 crore outlay for FY06 is expected to be trimmed to Tk 61,200 crore, they said.
  
The new budget projects an ambitious Tk 53,200 crore revenue earning. Sources said, as the government is going to shrink the revenue receipt for the current financial year to Tk 44,570 crore, the revenue target for FY07 would be 17.50 per cent more that the current revised one. Of the total projected revenue generation in the new budget, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is likely to be assigned to gather Tk 41,500 crore, which is about 20 per cent higher than its current target likely to be revised at Tk 34,456 crore. The original NBR revenue target for FY06 was Tk 35,650 crore.
  
The election year budget proposes a Tk 26,000 crore Annual Development Programme, which is Tk 4,500 crore or 21 per cent more than the revised ADP and Tk 1,500 crore or 6.00 per cent more than the original ADP of FY06.
 
The Tk 24,500 crore current ADP has already been trimmed down to Tk 21,500 crore, with Tk 14,375 crore coming from local sources and the rest, Tk 7,125 crore, from abroad.
 
Of the ADP allocations for FY07, Tk 14,812 crore or 57 per cent will be collected from local sources and the remaining Tk 11,188 crore is expected to come from external ones.    The FY07 ADP allocates for 937 development projects, of which only 51 are new, while 685 are unapproved.

General and religious education sector receives the largest share of the new ADP pie -- Tk 3,861.60 crore or 14.85 per cent. Commu-nications comes next with Tk 3,308.76 crore or 12.73 per cent, power Tk 3,160.86 crore or 12.16 per cent, rural development Tk 3,138.89 crore or 12.07 per cent, and health, nutrition, population and family welfare sector Tk 2,494 crore or 9.59 per cent.