Wastage of public money
I am trying to bring a serious issue to your attention.
Of late, the government of Bangladesh has made attempts to computerize the billing process of utility services (e.g. gas, electricity, telephone). This a good attempt no doubt and successful implementation of the plan will bring lots of benefit to the clients including protection against systems loss. Although, some utility service providers have started this computerization process, nobody is concerned about the progress of these projects and therefore the allocated money is wasted.
For example, through some personal interconnection with Bakhrabad Gas Systems Ltd., I have come to know that there computerization process started a long time ago and it has not been finished yet, though the deadline of the project has passed. I have come to know that one institute of BUET (namely IICT) is implementing the project for Bakhrabad Gas Systems Ltd. It made me curious, since BUET is no doubt the best technical institute in Bangladesh, how come they failed to meet the deadline, and still it went unnoticed. I made some personal investigation into this, and the facts that I found are even worse. This institute of BUET (i.e. IICT), is running several similar projects for other organisations also (Jalalabad Gas Systems Ltd, Titas Gas Pre-paid Meter Project, DESCO Production Unit etc) and they failed almost in every project to meet the deadline. Moreover, even being an institute of BUET, this institute does not have necessary skilled human resources to run these projects. Still the incidents are not coming to light (probably because all the organisations involved in these projects are public organisations).
The government should investigate the matter immediately.
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