DHAKA, June 7, 2022 (BSS) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had joined 1,600 digital meetings during the pandemic.

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak said this while replying to a supplementary question made by treasury bench member Khaleda Khanam at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban here today.

Palak said, "It is surprising that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had created a new record in the history across the world by participating in the meeting digitally in the last two years."

These meetings comprised of cabinet, Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), political, national and international affairs where the PM joined digitally.

Bangladesh is now in fifth place in ranking due to combating the Corona with the PM's instructions through right coordination.

"It was quite impossible to operate all the activities like education, health and administrative programme, commercial activities and even the judicial activities in the last two years if the digital Bangladesh would not be implemented by the Prime Minister," he told the parliament.

Necessary services were rendered among the people including workless and lower income people in line with instruction given by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through dial '333' lunched in 2018.

If the '333' call centre would not have existed, providing various necessary services like telemedicine, food assistance and school was not possible, he added.