Automation services at dist, UZ offices from June
The 16,000 government offices at district and upazila levels of the country will go for automation services from June to ensure public services to people's doorsteps.
Md Nazrul Islam Khan, national project director of Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister's Office, announced this at an orientation programme on "Digital Bangladesh" at deputy commissioner's office in Kushtia yesterday.
Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) organised the workshop.
All district and upazila level government offices will have links with the Union Information Service Centres (UISCs) so that rural people can get necessary services at the quickest time without any hassle, Nazrul said.
Through automation of these offices, opportunities would be created to introduce e-service, which in turn would ensure quick, cost effective and hassle-free government services to rural folks, he said.
He also said e-services in the government offices will ensure transparency and accountability in providing services and, thus, will help to cut corruption significantly.
Each district and upazila office will have separate web-portals to accumulate all information of the respective offices, he added.
Nazrul said UISCs have been set up in 4,501 Union Parishads across the country to bring the rural people under the information technology network for developing their lives and livelihood.
He also called upon the journalists to highlight the different programmes under the Digital Bangladesh initiative undertaken by the incumbent government to reach public services to peoples' doorsteps.
Ajit Kumar Sarkar, city editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), said journalists should project successes related to the information communication technology programmes taken up by the government that will help in building a digital Bangladesh by 2021.
BSS Managing Director and Chief Editor Ihsanul Karim presided over the programme while Deputy Commissioner Bonomali Bhowmik attended among others.
Journalists from different print and electronic media from Kushtia, Meherpur, Jhenaidah, Chuadanga and Rajbari also attended the programme.
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