SANGSAD BHABAN, July 9, 2019 (BSS) – Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar today said the government has planned to turn all the post offices located in rural areas into service centres aiming to reach digital services at marginal level.
“To implement the election manifesto of the present government – Amar Gram Amar Shahar – announced ahead of the 2018 general elections, Bangladesh Post Office has taken a mega plan,” he said while replying to a starred question placed by ruling party lawmaker Md Habibar Rahman (Bogura-5) in the Jatiya Sangsad here.
Jabbar said Bangladesh Post Office in association with Teletalk and the state-run Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has taken an initiative to turn the post offices into service centres in the rural areas.
The initiative is expected to be completed by 2023, he said, adding various digital and financial services will be provided to the marginal people from the service centres.
The telecommunications minister said works continue in three post offices of Panchagarh district to establish those as service centres.
After full implementation of the mega plan, he said, call centres would be set up at the rural post offices by giving telephone and mobile phone connections.
Jabbar said telephone exchanges of the BTCL have already been set up at all upazilas except some new upazilas.
Optical fiber of the BTCL was set up in the country’s 343 upazilas and 1,216 union parishads, he added.