Rural people getting information service in Chapainawabganj

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Apr 19 (BSS): Neglected rural people are now getting information and other technical services at ease from Union Information and Service Centres (UISCs). The UISCs are providing people with various government forms, circulars, rules, advertisements and documents, birth registration and citizen certificates, information on monthly payment order (MPO) of non-government schools, colleges and madrasas, list of VGD and VGF card holders and public examination results. The centres are also providing them with the survey report of different government and non-government organisations, information about damage during natural calamities, job information, internet and mobile phone facilities, information about services provided by union Parishads, basic human rights and information on agriculture, health, education and law. Besides, the UISCs also give some commercial services like internet browsing, e-mail, video conference, photographs, laminating, scanning, computer and professional training and computer compose and printing. Concerned sources said the UISCs were established in all 46 union Parishads of five Upazilas of the district in November, 2010 with a view to providing poor and working class people with global facilities through making Bangladesh a digital country. With this end in view, Upazila parishads provided these UISCs with computer, internet modem, printer, scanner and other materials and appointed two entrepreneur centre directors in each UISC. Generator and solar electricity have also been supplied to some unions where electricity is yet to reach. Mostafizur Rahman, an entrepreneur director of Ranihati UISC under Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila, said a number of people come to the centre everyday for knowing results and routines of public examinations, sending e-mail, getting job information, composing application forms and letters, scanning and getting photographs. Chairman of the UP Abdul Latif said the people are not responding up to the expectation as they are not still well aware of the services the UISC is providing.