State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak has canceled the foreign trips of all the officers and employees of the ICT Division till June 30 as a cost-effective strategy to reduce wastage of time, talent and money.
He gave this instruction during the first working day and discussion meeting with the officers and employees at the conference center of Information and Communication Technology Division at ICT Tower on Sunday afternoon.
ICT Secretary Md. Samsul Arefin, who was present at that time, stressed the importance of following this directive as well as increasing exports and remittances from the ICT sector. He said, nobody including I myself, the secretary of the ICT Division will go abroad in the next six months to save foreign exchange. The procurement committee needs to ensure more accountability. No syndicates will be tolerated.
In addition to the officials of the ICT Division, the top leaders of the commercial organizations of the information technology sector were present in the meeting.