The government has undertaken a plan to make 8,500 rural post offices e-centers and equip them with computers, printer, internet-modem, digital camera, photo printer, mobile phone set and generator. Post Telecommunications Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Razu told this in the parliament today in reply to a question from Monjur Qader Quoreshi.
The minister said a project for upgrading the rural post offices is now waiting for final approval of the Executive Committee on National Economic Council (ECNEC). All existing post offices would be converted into a two-room building to set up the e-centers, he said adding construction of the building would start soon after approval of the project.
The minister said the rural post offices would be reactivated again after launching the e-centers, which would be the focal point of all electronic service to the grassroots people. He said the government has no plan to make the card phone centers operational again as the tenure of the card phone management centers was expired in 2009 and the card phone booths across the country are now out of order.
The minister also said the government at present has no plan for a complete privatization of the telecommunication sector as the public sector organizations are providing services to the people in a competitive manner with private sector organizations. -BSS
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