বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র Pakistan has caused colossal damage to the lives and properties of the people of Bangladesh. Economic life of the people has been completely shattered and the country is in acute economic crisis. A famine is imminent. Our first and foremost task is to liberate' the country as quickly as possible. Simultaneously, we should initiate action to enlist the of friendly countries and international agencies to ward off the imminent famine. Since we are engaged in liberation struggle, the budget has been prepared to meet the essential expenditures which will directly and indirectly help the cause of war efforts. The budget has been prepared for a period of three months from July to September, 1971. This has been done with the expectation that we shall be able to liberate the country within that period. The budget estimate has been prepared without any basis of actual because most of the organizations have either recently been set up or being set up. During the last three months we, however, incurred some expenditures monthly on adhoc allocation basis. We also faced another difficulty in formulating the budget because of the fact that many departments did not send their budget estimates in time inspire of the fact that we requested them to do so by 30th June. This might be due to the reason that the departments are yet to draw up the structural set up and to fix the objectives, We have, however, kept block provision for these department. Allotment under block provision will not, however, entitle them to incur expenditure until they send the scheme of their objectives and the structural set up to attain them along with proper justification for our examination and concurrence. We have tried to keep down the projected expenditures to the minimum in view of the fact that our sources of revenue are limited and yet uncertain. This, however, does not mean that in case of need we shall not be able to mobilize the resources. We have already got very good response from the overseas Bengalese and friendly countries. We are confident that we shall be able to mobilize the necessary resources to achieve our main objective of liberating the country. We would, however, like to keep the Cabinet informed about the present resource position of the Govt. We have been able to mobilize an amount of Rs. 11, 22, 80,378.00 which were brought over from various treasuries and banks of Bangladesh. This, however, took some time for reasons beyond our control. As a result we stand to lose about 40% to 50% due to demonetization. We are yet to get funds from two other places amounting to roughly about Rs. 2,00,000,00 (Two Crores). Out of the amount till now received, we arranged to convert Rs. 4, 23, 38,750.00. We are also trying to mobilize some funds by selling some commodities like jute, fertilizer, tea, rice etc. which were brought over by the freedom fighters in different places. This, however, will require effective help and co-operation of Indian Govt. and also that of our MNAs & MPAs. Till now we have got about Rs 1, 00,000.00 (One-Lac) out of sale proceeds of jute. We expect to get a few lacs more out of the sale proceeds of other commodities. The budget has been prepared for three months with the projected expenditures of Rs. 2, 15, 64051.75. Assuming that it may have to be expended up to eon year, the total
