"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.
The Prime Minister was addressing the inaugural function of a two-day training workshop titled 'E-Governance, Service at Doorsteps' arranged for the UNOs by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at a PMO auditorium.
The training workshop was arranged as part of the PMO-sponsored Access to Information (A2I) Programme. Sixty UNOs will be given training on e-governance in the first batch.
The sessions of the workshop will be held at the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Bhaban at the city's Agargaon.
Hasina said the government would decentralise power more and more to empower people at the grassroots level.
She observed power was very much centralised in Bangladesh, as many military dictators ruled the country for a long time after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.
"As people have elected their own government now in the last December 29 polls, we want to serve them by decentralising power," she said.
In democracy, Hasina said, people representatives had to keep in touch with the masses and they had to play their part in functioning of the local government.
The Prime Minister said government officers and people's representatives had their own duties and responsibilities in the local government system.
"We hope all the duties and responsibilities will be discharged with full commitment and integrity," she told the function.
Promising to introduce e-governance from the grassroots level to the central administration, the Prime Minister revealed that the government had decided to introduce e-tender system to put an end to tender manipulation.
Hasina asked the ministries, all government institutions and departments to keep their websites always updated to provide people with the latest information.
The Prime Minister said the government wanted to stamp out corruption from all sectors utilising the information technologies.
"We don't want to be known as a corrupt nation in the world as we used to be during previous governments. Work hard to uphold Bangladesh's image abroad as an honest, hard-working and modern nation," she said.
Hasina said Awami League had promised to turn Bangladesh into a digital country by 2021, but Digital Bangladesh did not mean the use of only computers everywhere.
"Digital Bangladesh is a modern philosophy of using appropriate technology in implementing all the government's pledges, including poverty eradication, ensuring quality education and health facilities and generating employment opportunities for the people," she said.
The Prime Minister said the main purpose of building Digital Bangladesh was to ensure people's empowerment, establishing transparency, accountability and good governance at every level and sector, taking government services to the doorsteps of people.
Prime Minister's Adviser HT Imam, State Minister for Science and Technology architect Yafes Osman, Cabinet Secretary MA Aziz and UNDP country director Stefan Priesner also addressed the inaugural function.
On behalf of the UNOs, Bhoda Upazila UNO from Panchagar district Sarwar Alam spoke on the occasion.
A2I project Director Nazrul Islam Khan presented slideshows on the government's concepts on Digital Bangladesh.
He informed the audience that under the project all the UNOs of 483 upazilas of the country would be trained on e-governance in eight batches from time to time.
The UNOs will also be provided with laptops as part of the project.
Later, the Prime Minister handed over a laptop to a female UNO in the programme.
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Quelle/Source: The Financial Express Bangladesh, 01.11.2009
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