The government move to digitalise policing initially with online general diary has failed to make an impression as most people are unaware of it even a year after its launch.
Most people, who have recently visited police stations to file GDs for snatching, lost documents or other reasons, were found scratching their heads when asked why they did not go for online GDs.
In most cases it turned out that they have never heard of it.
A high-level team from Bangladesh has come down to the state to have a hands-on experience of the e-governance projects in the state so as to adopt similar models in their country.
Various e-governance applications are being initiated in Bangladesh as part of an UNDP sponsored programme, Access to Information (A2I).
The delegation led by Mr Razee Mohammad Fakhrul, member of A2I programme, interacted with officials of Akshaya on how the centres were being run in a sustainable manner. A similar citizen services delivery project is being launched in Bangladesh too.
"Digital Bangladesh" is an all-encompassing idea. It is not just e-commerce, e-education, or e-banking or e-governance. But among all the components e-governance is the most important for the initiative of "Digital Bangladesh."
We achieved our independence through a war of liberation after a long stretch of movements and struggle in order to realize that dream.
Half of that dream has now materialized, but our struggle for freedom or economic emancipation is yet to be crowned with success.
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There is no alternative to learn and utilize the information and communication technologies (ICT) by ensuring easier access of the mass people to information, computers, internet and other digital devices to achieve the development goals, he said.
The PM's Vision-2021 in the present context of globalization will achieve goals of the government's pre-election pledges of Charter of Changes to turn Bangladesh into a corruption-free medium income nation by the year 2021, he said.
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