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All unions to be connected with high speed internet by 2019: Jabbar
DHAKA, Sept 13, 2018 (BSS) – Posts, Telecommunications and Information
Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar today said the country’s all unions will
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 while the
rest unions by 2019,” he said while addressing the closing ceremony of Top-Up
IT and ITES Foundation Skills Training Programme’ organised by LICT Project
of BCC under ICT Division.
Jabbar urged young generation to be skilled on emerging technology as
“the skills you have earned through the training will be obsolete in the
future”.
“Time-befitting training is imperative at the moment as technology is
changing very fast,” he said, adding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is
aware of 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 eminent educationist and
professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Muhammed Zafar
Iqbal, BCC executive director Partapratim Deb, additional secretary of ICT
Division Rashadul Islam, LICT project director Md Rezaul Karim and LICT
component team leader Sami Ahmed.
The programme was organised 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 Bangladesh Computer
Council (BCC) of ICT Division.
The UK-based Ernst and Young (EY) conducted the training for the last
three and half years to meet the demand for skilled human resources in the
ICT sector.
Of the total 30,000 trained human resources, 10,000 received Top-Up IT
training while 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.
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