Address of the website is www.forms.gov.bd.
The e-citizen service is being introduced under the UNDP-aided project for strengthening the ICT system at Prime Minister’s Office. Under this initiative, widely used various government forms would be digitized in phases.
Some 250 to 500 types of forms will be digitized within three years, out of total 1200 government forms of various categories, according to a concerned official.
The website has been developed to make the digitized government forms available to people having access to internet while these forms published in CD media for areas still out of reach of internet network.
The published CD would be distributed for free through government and private institutions so people can get those without having to queue up at the gates of government offices.
Prime Minister Khaleda inaugurated the website and CD of digitized forms by pressing the mouse of a computer at the PM Office on the first day of her office after Eid-ul-Fitr vacation.
The Prime Minister noted that the introduction of the website on digitized government forms is a big progress on way of multifarious activities of the government, which would increase transparency and accountability of the administration.
“Government service would reach people more easily following the introduction of the website and CD,” she told the function, attended by the country representative of the UN agency for development promotion.
The Prime Minister thanked the UNDP Resident Representative, Jorgen Lissner, for extending support to the project.
Responding, Lissner expressed his satisfaction being involved with this venture, which takes governance on a higher plane in this information age.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is the chairperson of the National ICT Task Force while her Principal Secretary chief of the steering committee on implementation of the taskforce decisions.
PM’s Principal Secretary Dr Kamaluddin Siddiqi, Secretary Khandokar Shahidul Islam and project director of the ICT project at the PMO Engineer Mahbub Sarwar were present.
Quelle: News From Bangladesh, 07.11.2005
