Budget discussion cancelled as inflation concerns grow
Individual ministries will not be called to parliament to explain their budget requests for 2016-17 until debate begins in January in an effort to speed up the approval process, Myanmar MPs were told on 23 December.
Parliamentarians arrived yesterday expecting to hear representatives from the ministries explain their proposed work programs for next year. But they were instead told that the ministries will coordinate with 19 sectoral committees that were formed earlier this month and are mostly led by ministers from the junta era.
