MRP

Ishtiaque Ahmed, Rome, Italy
I'm a Bangladeshi national living in Italy. I have resident permit for Italy which will expire soon. But now Italian immigration department is not receiving any application to renew resident permit with the hand written Bangladeshi passport. Currently, they accept only Machine Readable Passport. I have contacted the Bangladesh Embassy in Rome but they told me to go back to Bangladesh for getting a new MRP passport. As I know the present government's vision to build Digital Bangladesh, so how come I need to go back to Bangladesh for a simple passport? Why can't I get it from the local embassy?