BD would become middle-income nation soon: speakers

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BSS, Rangpur :
Bangladesh would turn into middle income nation soon following successful implementation of the digitisation programme that has become an irreversible process establishing accountability and transparency, speakers said here Sunday.
They were addressing the launching ceremony of a two-day Digital Innovation Fair-2015 being organised by Domar upazila district administration on Domar upazila parishad premises in Domar upazila town of Nilphamari district.
The UNDP-assisted Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has been extending assistance in arranging the fair where hundreds of people, mostly the youths and students thronged on the inaugural day.
Member of the Parliament Aftab Uddin Sarker attended the ceremony as the chief guest and formally inaugurated the fair with Domar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mohammad Shafiur Rahman in the chair.
The chief guest also visited the 15 stalls set up by different GO- NGOs, union digital centres, and institutions in the fair and lauded various newer digital innovations and service providing techniques being exhibited there.
Domar upazila chairman Abdur Razzaque Basunia, Upazila Muktijoddha Commander Nurun Nabi, President of upazila Awami League (AL) Khairul Alam Babul, its General Secretary Toaffael Ahmed and Upazila Agriculture Officer Enamul Haque addressed as special guests.
The speakers said the nation has already achieved tremendous success in the digitisation process for reaching services to the people’s doorsteps quickly and in a hassle-free manner through the union digital centres and other web portals.
The people are getting digital services like e-purjee, e-governance, e-education, e-agriculture, e-health, e-admission, e-earning, e-banking, e-employment and outsourcing and other services turning life easier accelerating uplift, they said.
Aftab Uddin said the fair would play vital role in sensitising and bridging the people with the ICT, rights to information and getting government services in the process of building a middle income nation through realising the Vision 2021. He said those days are not far away when Bangladesh would turn into a middle-income nation ahead of 2021 on its way to become a developed nation by 2041 as envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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