Digital Bangladesh Day today

The fifth "Digital Bangladesh Day-2021" will be celebrated through various programmes in the country and Bangladesh missions abroad today.

With the theme "Digital Bangladesh-er Orjon, Upokrito Sokol Jonogon", the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division has chalked out elaborate programmes to celebrate the day.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the main programme of the day and address the prize-giving ceremony virtually at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) from the Gono Bhaban residence at 10:00am.

The day's programme, however, will begin with paying homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his portrait at Dhanmondi-32 in the city at 7:00am.

State Minister ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak will be present as the chief guest.

At 8:00am, a procession led by Palak will be brought out from the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad maintaining the social distancing and it will end at the Khamarbari intersection.

A national seminar titled "Digital Bangladesh-er Orjon, Upokrito Sokol Jonogon (achievements of Digital Bangladesh: benefit all people" will be held at the BICC at 3:00pm while Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq will address it as the chief guest.

In the afternoon, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal will inaugurate a Digital Lab at United International University (UIU) in the city's Badda area and address a concert there at 5:00pm.

The day's programmes will also include online quiz competition, essay writing competitions, poetry recitation and painting competitions based on Digital Bangladesh.