As an alternative to the government’s expenditure rationalisation measure of deferring Leave Travel Concession (LTC) and slashing transfer benefits, the National Council recommended saving 10 per cent from the total budget of budgetary agencies and utilising the human resource development and training budget of civil servants.
With the COVID-19 impacting the country’s economy, the government identified seven temporary policy measures to meet the recurrent expenditure for the fiscal year 2020 – 2021.
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