DHAKA: Finance minister AMA Muhith has proposed to allocate Tk 3 thousand 587 crore for digital infrastructure development.

The proposed allocation will go to Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology.

Mentioning the establishment of Kaliakoir High-tech Park in Gazipur district and Software Technology Park in Jessore is underway, the minister said, “For development of digital infrastructure regionally, land has been demarcated to establish Mohakhali IT Village in Dhaka, Chandradweep Cloudchar in Barisal, Electronic City in Sylhet and Barind Silicon City in Rajshahi”.

Simultaneously, activities for land selection are ongoing to establish high-tech and software technology parks in Khulna, Chittagong and Rangpur divisions, he added.

Besides, with a view to developing IT industry in all the districts, initiatives have been taken to establish IT villages in 12 districts in the first phase.

“You will be happy to know that we are installing video conferencing system in 800 government offices,” the minister said.

According to the minister, in order to provide internet services to the people, 11 thousand km of optical fiber cableline is being laid in 1 thousand 6 unions of all the districts.

Apart from this, a project has been undertaken to establish broadband network to provide broadband internet services to the entire country.

“We will soon increase the bandwidth capacity from 200 Gbps to 1 thousand 300 hundred Gbps by connecting the country with the second submarine cable.”

“Besides, we expect to establish 8 thousand 500 Post e-Centres by June 2017.”

“You will be pleased to know that we have selected an orbital slot and signed a contract for launching the first ever satellite (Bangabandhu Satellite-1) of Bangladesh into space by 2016.”

BDST: 1957 HRS, JUN 04, 2015
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