Army to prepare voter list with professionalism: Moeen
Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Army chief General Moeen U Ahmed said Monday his forces would accomplish the task of preparing a voter list and national identity cards along with photographs with absolute professionalism to hold a credible election by 2008, reports BSS.
"We assure you, we will accomplish the task with absolute professionalism," he said as the major cellular phone operators and a private bank donated army a total of 950 laptop computers as technical assistance to prepare the electoral roll and national IDs.
Moeen said the donation would greatly help expedite the process of preparing the roll along with the ID cards to accomplish the task within the deadline of October 2008 under the election roadmap to stage the polls by the fag end of the next year.
The army chief added that under the routine public procurement system, some 8,000 laptops would be reached to the army to assist the election commission to carryout the task while "your contribution will expedite the process of modern voter registration with biometric records'.
Moeen said army extended hands to the process as asked by the caretaker government, which came in on January 12 with a promise to hold a credible election.
Warid Telecom topped the list of laptop contributors offering 500 laptops along with accessories to be followed by Grameen Phone and Dutch Bangla Bank with 200 and 100 computers.
City Cell, Bangla Link and Aktel contributed the process offering 50 laptops each.
"We assure you, we will accomplish the task with absolute professionalism," he said as the major cellular phone operators and a private bank donated army a total of 950 laptop computers as technical assistance to prepare the electoral roll and national IDs.
Moeen said the donation would greatly help expedite the process of preparing the roll along with the ID cards to accomplish the task within the deadline of October 2008 under the election roadmap to stage the polls by the fag end of the next year.
The army chief added that under the routine public procurement system, some 8,000 laptops would be reached to the army to assist the election commission to carryout the task while "your contribution will expedite the process of modern voter registration with biometric records'.
Moeen said army extended hands to the process as asked by the caretaker government, which came in on January 12 with a promise to hold a credible election.
Warid Telecom topped the list of laptop contributors offering 500 laptops along with accessories to be followed by Grameen Phone and Dutch Bangla Bank with 200 and 100 computers.
City Cell, Bangla Link and Aktel contributed the process offering 50 laptops each.