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DIGITAL-CENTRE-ENTREPRENEURS (with picture)
Digital centre entrepreneurs urged to work for turning villages into towns
RAJSHAHI, April 26, 2019 (BSS) – Speakers at an entrepreneurs conference here
today expected that the digital centre entrepreneurs will work for
transforming the villages into towns through delivering the civic services to
the grassroots people with utmost sincerity and honesty.
They mentioned that the present government under the dynamic leadership
of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is intended to turn each of the villages into
towns through ensuring urban services to the rural people.
Divisional Commissioner’s office and A2I Project of Prime Minister’s
office jointly organised the daylong divisional conference at Rajshahi
Medical College auditorium in the city.
Over 1,200 entrepreneurs from Union Digital Centre, Poursaava Digital
Centre and City Digital Centre in all eight districts under Rajshahi division
attended the conference.
Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation AHM Khairuzzaman Liton addressed the
opening ceremony as the chief guest with Commissioner of Rajshahi division
Nur-Ur-Rahman in the chair.
It was also addressed, among others, by A2I Project Director Mustafizur
Rahman, Additional Divisional Commissioner Zakir Hossain and Deputy
Commissioner SM Abdul Kader.
Mayor Liton urged the entrepreneurs to put in their best efforts to make
the centres more effective and dynamic so that they can earn more through
providing services to the grassroots people.
Mustafizur Rahman detailed the objectives, implementation strategy and
status of the programme and said the major objectives of the process are to
provide people with all necessary services at their doorsteps, ensuring
accountability and transparency towards establishing a knowledge-based
society and good governance.
The grassroots people are getting their information related necessary
services from the digital centres. The digital centres are contributing a lot
towards supplementing the government efforts of building ‘Digital
Bangladesh’.
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