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All unions to get high speed internet by 2019

প্রকাশন তারিখ : 2018-09-16

Posts, Telecommunica-tions and IT Minister Mustafa Jabbar yesterday said country's all unions would be brought under high speed internet connectivity by 2019 through fiber optic cable lines.

"Excepting 772 unions of remote areas all unions of the country will come under high speed internet connectivity by December this year and the rest will be by 2019," he told a concluding function of Top -Up IT and ITES Foundation Skills Training Program organized by a project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under ICT Division.

Jabbar called upon the young generation to be skilled on emerging technology as the skills you have earned through the training will be obsolete in future. "Time-befitting training is imperative at the moment as technology is changing very fast," he said adding that the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is aware about this technological development and Bangladesh under her visionary leadership will lead Digital revolution in the days to come.

Chaired by Information and Communication Technology Secretary Zuena Aziz the function was also addressed among others by Executive Director of BCC Partapratim Deb, Additional Secretary of ICT Division Rashadul Islam, LICT Project Director Md. Rezaul Karim and LICT Component Team Leader Sami Ahmed and Project Director, Ernst & Young Kamal Mansharamani.

The program was organized to mark the competition of training to build 30,000 skilled human resources under the World Bank financed Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of BCC of ICT Division.
The UK based Ernst and Young (EY) conducted the training for the last three and half years to the meet the demand for skilled human resources of the ICT sector to some extent.

Of the total 30,000 trained human resources 10,000 received Top-Up IT training and 20,000 Foundation Skilled training. Of the 10,000 Top-Up IT trained manpower 4,059 were placed in the IT and IT Enabled Service (IT-ITES) sector till July 2018.

Earlier while presenting a demo on sustainability of the training programme at BCC conference room Operation Manager of EY Suman Saha said the EY maintained quality of the training as a trainer's pool was created by internationally reputed trainers.

Reference: The Asian Age, Friday,14 September, 2018.