Sagar Biswas :It’s an ambitious technology project, setting a Tier 4 Data Centre at Kaliakair in Gazipur district to store vast amounts of digital data of government, private and international organizations under high security arrangements. But the starting seems a giant mess: corruption thrives, contract missteps, cost overruns. There is also widespread allegation that the project site is unsuitable and unworkable.The billion taka project, which has not yet get approval from ECNEC [Executive Committee of the National Economic Council], is going to be implemented also without conducting proper feasibility study, forming necessary laws, organogram, adequate number of skill manpower and not preparing DPP [development project proforma].”The data centre is going to be established in line with the present government’s Digital Bangladesh plan. The work is going on smooth and easy. Now, we are waiting for approval from ECNEC,” Secretary of Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Division Shym Sundar Sarkar said. Currently, Bangladesh has a tier 3 data centre at Bangladesh Computer Council Bhaban; but it is too small to store huge data flow that comes from government offices, banks, research centres, and other business organisations.But in fact, only five Tier 4 data centres, out of 19 across the globe, have been sustained. In Bangladesh perspective, several other data centres may be flourished by the time, mostly from private sector, after establishment of the National Data Centre [NDC].He said both the countries specially angered to intensify monitoring on both sides of the border the two nations to check Yaba production. Both sides also decided to continue the effective activities to stop poppy and hemp cultivation in the border areas.The both nations also agreed to modernise and develop the border management system and worked out strategies to intensify search operations in the vessels that ply the Naf River and costal areas adjacent to the borders of the countries to stop drug trafficking.Bazlur said a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed between the two countries in December 1, 1994 to prevent drug smuggling.As per the agreement, the first bilateral meeting on abuse of narcotics and drug trafficking was held in Myanmar on November 15-16, 2011.Though the second meeting was held after four years of lapse, the two sides decided to hold similar meeting every year from now on.
