84 post offices to be automated by March next
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
FE Report
All services as well as service programmes of at least 84 post offices of Bangladesh Postal Depart ment will be brought under the automation system by March next.
Additional Director General of Postal Department AKM Shafiur Rahman and the Managing Director of Synesis IT, a software company, Tuesday signed an agreement in this connection at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
"The automation system will help the country's back-dated postal system enter into the digital era," said Post and Telecommuni cations Minister Razi Uddin Ahmed Raju while speaking at the signing ceremony.
"The government took the initiative as part of its vision to make digital Bangladesh by 2021, which would restore the people's confidence once again in this age-old service."
He said: "We have revised a section of the Post Office Act, 1898 to make the department more active and dynamic."
"The revised section will be approved by January next in Parliament," he expressed the hope.
Mobasher-ur-Rahman, director general (Postal Services) of Bangladesh Post Office, told the FE that the government had earmarked Tk 318 million for the automation project as part of its Digital Bangladesh vision.
"Under the project, 71 head post offices and 13 mail and postal service offices will be automated with all services including banking, insurance, money transfer, utility bill, EMS and accounts system," he said.
Detailing the automation system, he said a server would be installed in the central post office in Dhaka to connect all the 84 post offices with it.
The DG said "Synesis IT will cost less than Tk 20 million and their software making process will be finished within one year."
He said five computers equipped with modern facilities would be installed in each of these post offices at the end of the software making process and the posted employees would be trained up.
Among others, Hasanul Haque Inu MP, chief of the standing committee of Parliament on Post and Telecommunication, Nazrul Islam Babu, member of the standing committee of Parliament on Post and Telecommuni cation, and Sunil Kanti Bose, secretary of Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, also spoke in the signing ceremony.
All services as well as service programmes of at least 84 post offices of Bangladesh Postal Depart ment will be brought under the automation system by March next.
Additional Director General of Postal Department AKM Shafiur Rahman and the Managing Director of Synesis IT, a software company, Tuesday signed an agreement in this connection at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
"The automation system will help the country's back-dated postal system enter into the digital era," said Post and Telecommuni cations Minister Razi Uddin Ahmed Raju while speaking at the signing ceremony.
"The government took the initiative as part of its vision to make digital Bangladesh by 2021, which would restore the people's confidence once again in this age-old service."
He said: "We have revised a section of the Post Office Act, 1898 to make the department more active and dynamic."
"The revised section will be approved by January next in Parliament," he expressed the hope.
Mobasher-ur-Rahman, director general (Postal Services) of Bangladesh Post Office, told the FE that the government had earmarked Tk 318 million for the automation project as part of its Digital Bangladesh vision.
"Under the project, 71 head post offices and 13 mail and postal service offices will be automated with all services including banking, insurance, money transfer, utility bill, EMS and accounts system," he said.
Detailing the automation system, he said a server would be installed in the central post office in Dhaka to connect all the 84 post offices with it.
The DG said "Synesis IT will cost less than Tk 20 million and their software making process will be finished within one year."
He said five computers equipped with modern facilities would be installed in each of these post offices at the end of the software making process and the posted employees would be trained up.
Among others, Hasanul Haque Inu MP, chief of the standing committee of Parliament on Post and Telecommunication, Nazrul Islam Babu, member of the standing committee of Parliament on Post and Telecommuni cation, and Sunil Kanti Bose, secretary of Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, also spoke in the signing ceremony.