25,000 women will get training in 43 districts under ‘Her Power’ project: Palak

The ICT department is working on technology skills for women in 43 districts in a project called 'Her Power' to create employment through freelance work for young women at home. 25,000 women will be trained in this project. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said that the Tk. 250 crore project will provide 3 months of hands-on training and 3 months of incubation. The state minister gave the information in response to a question from MP Rubina Akhter during a question and answer session in Parliament on Tuesday. State Minister Palak further said that special measures are being taken in the Muktijoddha Complex to be constructed expending of total 250 crore taka with the assistance of Taka 50 crore from India, a true friend of Bangladesh, in the interest of perpetuating the ‘She Power’ project. Earlier, in response to a question from Rezaul Karim Apu, the state minister also promised to set up a high-tech park in Chapainawabganj. Therefore, he urged to settle the place. In response to a supplementary question, Palak also clarified that the government has not hired any private company to create the website of the schools. Answering a question from Shahiduzzaman Sarkar, Member of Parliament for Naogaon-2, at the beginning of the star-studded question-and-answer session, he said work on setting up 33 Sheikh Kamal IT training centers at the district level has started in the last five years. Construction work of 8 of them has been completed. It is hoped that these centers will be inaugurated within this year. State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak further said, while replying to a supplementary question made by treasury bench member Khaleda Khanam, “It is surprising that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had created a new record in the history across the world by participating in the meeting digitally in the last two years.” meanwhile, these meetings comprised of cabinet, Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), political, national and international affairs where the PM joined digitally. Bangladesh is now in fifth place in ranking due to combating Corona with the PM’s instructions through the right coordination. “It was quite impossible to operate all the activities like education, health and administrative program, commercial activities and even the judicial activities in the last two years if the digital Bangladesh would not be implemented by the Prime Minister,” Palak told the parliament. "Necessary services were rendered among the people including workless and lower-income people in line with instruction given by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through dial ‘333’ launched in 2018. If the ‘333’ call center would not have existed, providing various necessary services like telemedicine, food assistance and school was not possible", he added.