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Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government will decentralise power for people's empowerment at the grassroots level.

She observed that power is very much centralised in Bangladesh as the country was ruled by many military dictators for a long time after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.

Weiterlesen: Bangladesh: PM pledges power decentralisation

The target of establishing a Digital Bangladesh will remain 'illusive' if the government machinery is not properly digitised as felt by experts who consider e-governance as an integral part of digitisation. According to a government report as appeared in the press, more than 88 per cent of public offices have no manpower to deal with ICT (information and communication technology) operations and 70 per cent of the employees in government offices do not use computers. The situation is the worst in departments, corporations and commissions as 95 per cent of such offices have no ICT professionals who are needed to make e-governance initiatives successful.

Weiterlesen: Bangladesh: ICT experts must for digitisation

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday asked the Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNOs) to work together with people's representatives, including Upazila chairmen, to ensure maximum welfare of the grassroots people, reports UNB.

"No one in the world can do all the jobs alone. You (UNOs) have to work together with the Upazila chairmen and other people's representatives for ensuring people's welfare," she told them.

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According to recent media reports, the government has initiated a move to bring under a computer networking system all offices of divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers. For the purpose, separate email addresses have been created for each official at the district and the upazila levels under division-wise email groups. With the implementation of the new system, electronic mails will replace the post in administrative offices down to upazila to expedite dispatch of official orders and get quick response from field level. The government, as part of the move, has decided to provide all deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers across the country with laptops to enable local administrators to accelerate their official communications with the ministries and all other tiers directly through the Internet.

Weiterlesen: Bangladesh: E-governance networking