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E-parliaments provide better service delivery of parliaments to citizens of their respective country. For the Bangladesh Parliament, ICT can be used as a tool for greater transparency and accountability, and a platform for public consultation and interaction with citizens. A survey conducted by an international organisation, about e-parliaments and use of technology, finds that parliaments are increasingly using new technologies to reach people mostly in a passive way -- making more information available in different formats. Of the 90 countries surveyed, 77 stated they use ICT in some way to improve their work. They found disparity between the work done in the developing world and the developed world, but the hunger and desire for using new technologies is very strong in most of the developing countries.

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E-Parliament means providing better service delivery of Parliaments to citizens of the respective country. For Bangladesh Parliament, ICT can be tool for greater transparency and accountability and a platform for public consultation and interaction with the citizens. A survey conducted by an international organisation about e-Parliaments and use of technology finds that Parliaments are increasingly using new technologies to reach people mostly in a passive way - making more information available in different formats. Of the 90 countries surveyed, 77 stated they use ICT in some way to improve their works. They found disparity between the work done in developing world and developed world, but the hunger and desire for using new technologies is very strong in most of the developing countries.

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The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to introduce online registration service for business firms by next January, besides making sure unitary registration number for income tax, VAT, customs and registrar of joint stock companies.

NBR Chairman Dr Naser uddin Ahmed said it on Thursday at a press briefing at its city office. He held the briefing to share NBR latest efforts towards establishing e-governance to bring better service facilities to tax payers by increasing use of technology to that end.

Read more: Bangladesh: National Board of Revenue starts e-registration of businesses by Jan

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The government plans to recruit private sector executives to run state agencies in a move to inject fresh momentum into the bureaucracy, an aide to the prime minister said Tuesday.

"We must bring in fresh air in the government," HT Imam, the adviser to the prime minister on establishment and administrative affairs, said.

He said that the move would serve as "locomotive" in ensuring dynamism in the civil bureaucracy long derided as slow and inefficient.

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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.

Read more: Bangladesh: PM pledges power decentralisation

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