Telecom university to be set up
Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju, the minister for Post and Telecommunications, said the government has a plan to set up a telecom university in the country as a part of its goal to build a digitalised-based society.
“We've a plan to set up a telecom university in future,” he said while addressing the inaugural ceremony of a representatives' conference of diploma engineers at the auditorium of the Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh yesterday.
Raju said that the telecommunications ministry would soon start selling locally produced laptop at Tk 10,000. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate this cheap laptop on October 11, he added.
“As part of the government's plan to reach the latest technology to people, the telecommunications ministry will make 3G technology available by March next year,” Raju said.
Joint general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League Mahbub Ul Alam Hanif attended the opening session of the conference as special guest while IDEB President AKMA Hamid presided over it. IDEB general secretary Md Shamsur Rahman delivered welcome address.
In his speech, Mahbub Ul Alam Hanif said that street agitations would not solve the caretaker government issue because the higher court has annulled the system.
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