GAIBANDHA, Feb 13, 2020 (BSS) – Speakers at a function underscored the
need for having access the underprivileged women of the society to digital
services to make the women-folk empowered.
“In this context, info lady popularly known as ‘Tathya Apa’ can play
significant role to popularize the digital services to the backward women of
the society through having access them to the services”, they said.
They made the comments while addressing a Special Uthan Boithak on the
Mujib Year, birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman, on the premises of Kholahati union parishad premises in Sadar
upazila on Wednesday afternoon.
Information Center, Gaibandha Sadar upazila arranged the function under
Tathya Apa: Women Empowerment aimed at Building Digital Bangladesh through
Information and Communication Technology project, phase II of Jatiya Mohila
Sangstha (JMS) of the Woman and Child Affairs Ministry.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abdul Matin addressed the function as the chief
guest while Sadar UNO Prasun Kumar Chakrabartee presided over the ceremony.
District officer of JMS Golam Faruk, upazila social services officer M.
Nasir Uddin Shah, former deputy commander of upazila Muktijoddhya Sangshad
Khoybar Hossain, information services officer Mafia Akter and senior
journalist Sarker Mohammad Shahiduzzaman addressed the program, among others.
The speakers urged the information services officers to go to the
doorsteps of the underprivileged women in a bid to make the digital services
more popularized to them.
DC Abdul Matin said the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
had been working relentlessly since 2009 to turn Bangladesh into digital
country by 2021 and the efforts are continuing.
Almost all the officials work of government organizations including non-
government ones had already been digitized and the common people of the
country are enjoying the benefits of the digital services, he said.
Abdul Matin also asked the staff of the project to be more serious and
professional to brief the backward women about the digital services from
various sectors including health, education, agriculture, business and
gender.