Bangladesh is walking towards the path of ‘smart’ from digital. Government services are being made paperless by ensuring digital connectivity of broadband internet and 5G spectrum. This time, the national digital transaction platform too is being established as an inter-transactional medium to make financial transactions ‘paperless’. Through this all transactions including personal and commercial will be done in ‘cashless’ way. On the advice of the Prime Minister, the name of this platform will be ‘Binimoy‘.
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak made the remarks in a motion of thanks on the President’s address to the 16th session of the 11th National Assembly on Monday. ‘And it will be possible to implement it by 2031’, added the state minister.
Palak said, “Today, in a country of 170 million people, 175 million mobile handsets are being used by the people of Bangladesh. Today 18 crore SIM card and 13 crore internet users are getting the service of Digital Bangladesh. In the last 22 months, we have been able to do this in a digital way; in education, health, trade and even in judicial matters.”
Mentioning that these have been achieved step by step, the Minister said, “Union Digital Center in 2010, Fiber Optical Cable up to district level in 2014, 800 video conferencing equipments across the country, Fiber Optical Cable in 3800 Union Centers till 2021 and e-documents in 2016. As a result, we have been able to execute 17 million digital files in the last 5 years. Today we have made the activities of the government paperless. In the future, Mr. Sajeeb Wazed Joy Bhai wants us to take our financial transactions digitally.”
In his speech in Parliament, Palak further said that 5 decades ago, Bangabandhu realized the issue of modern information technology with his foresight. Built the Earth Station of the Earth Satellite Center. 43 years later, Bangabandhu’s daughter made a bridge from ‘Mujib to Sajib’. We have been able to launch Bangabandhu satellite. In just 13 years, we have been able to take Bangladesh from 2G to 5G era.