The connection would come to Bangladesh from Pashchimbanga and Assam in India, he said, adding that the Indian project would also cover Nepal and Bhutan.
The minister said this while talking to reporters during a visit to the development work of hi-tech park in Kaliakoir of Gazipur.
Mostafa Faruque also said the project, financed by Asian Development Bank, would be completed by 2017.
After completion of the project, different software companies from both home and abroad could conduct software related research in the park on around 232 acres of land.
Plots would be allocated to those companies and they would construct the buildings.
The ICT ministry Joint Secretary Shayma Prashad Bepari, Managing Director of hi-tech park Hosne Ara Begum, Assistant Director Md Mahfuzul Kabir, were also present on the occasion.
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Quelle/Source: The Daily Star Online, 09.11.2013