The credit will be disbursed under 'Identification System for Enhancing Access to Services Project'. The goal of the project is to introduce e-governance in government bodies to combat corruption and provide more efficient services.
The Election Commission Secretariat will implement the project from July 2011 to June 2016.
A number of citizen databases including the national voter list have already been prepared. But citizens still have to produce the same basic information already stored on those databases every time they seek any government services. Besides, it requires a lot of paperwork and time to process the applications for government services.
The e-GP system is a single web portal from where and through which PAs and PEs will be able to perform their procurement related activities using a dedicated secured web based dashboard.
The e-Government Procurement solution introduced under Public Procurement Reform (PPR) Process is being supported by World Bank and being used by all government organisations which will help in ensuring equal access to the Bidders/Tenderers, efficiency, transparency and accountability in the public procurement process in the country.
Officials of Survey of Bangladesh (SOB), the national mapping organisation under the defence ministry, explained this new technology at the four-day Digital Innovation Fair 2011 at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Novo Theatre in the city yesterday.
SOB is giving final touches to the digital three-dimension maps that would make the modern technology possible in Bangladesh, they said.
“Around 75 percent money of the annual development program is used for public procurement. People of the country are the source of all these money. The government is accountable to the people for ensuring standard of the procured goods and service and usage of the public money,” she said.
The prime minister said this while inaugurating the electronic government procurement (e-GP) at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).
Planning Minister AK Khandker, State Minister for Science and ICT Yeafesh Osman and World Bank Country Director Ellen Goldstein spoke at the function.
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