Meanwhile, another FE report adds: Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said the government will devise a five-year work plan for development of the country's information communication technology (ICT) sector to help achieve its goal of 'Digital Bangladesh'.
"We will give a work programme for the next five years, where the objectives of achieving our Digital Bangladesh will be stated," Mr Muhith told newsmen Monday after a meeting with a delegation of local computer and software operators at his ministry.
Implementation of e-governance, development of manpower, and development and protection of local software industry will be top on the proposed five-year work plans, the minister added.
He, however, observed that for the successful implementation of e-governance, the entire government functionary would have to be integrated with the computer networking.
To help achieve such objective, the government will take necessary steps to ensure uninterrupted budgetary allocations for development of the country's ICT sector.
About the proposals made by the local ICT leaders, the finance minister said all the existing taxes, which are now in force at some limited stages, will go from the next budget.
"The domestic software industry has to be protected," he said.
President of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) Habibullah N. Karim and President of the Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) Mostafa Jabbar along with other sector representatives were present at the meeting.
The BASIS placed a number of proposals including allocating 5.0 per cent of the government's annual development programme (ADP) for the ICT related projects and 2.0 per cent of the revenue budget for operations and maintenance of ICT-based citizens' service delivery systems, as has been proposed in the National ICT Policy 2009.
Five-year work plan for ICT development
FE Team | Published: May 19, 2009 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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