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PM opens new digital exchange in city's Bashabo area

1,38,000 new digital lines to be installed in capital
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that more coverage of the modern technology and use of technology In day to day Ufe would ensure economic development of the country, reports UNB.
'We ll be able to attain more economic progress, the more we adopt modern technology," she said while inaugurating the 14.500 Une Bashabo digital telephone exchange by talking to Telecommunication Minister Mohammad Nasim over telephone from her office.
Local MP and Deputy Minister for LGRD Saber Hossain Chowdhury, who was at Bashabo. also talked to the Prime Minister over telephone after the Inauguration of the new digital exchange
Under the new exchange, the analog lines of Bashabo. Mug-dapara. Goran. Banasree and Mahanagar area turned into digital ones free of cost.
During her telephonic conversation, the Prime Minister said these areas remained neglected for a long time and the people have suffered a lot from various problems related to telephones and communications.
With the installation of digital lines, the area came under the modern telecom system Taking advantage of the facility'. people of the area would be able to get into the modern era of communication, including phone, fax and Internet, she said.
Hasina said business and economic activities would accelerate with the use of digital lines. Assuring to increase other civic facilities, she informed that fly-over and over bridges would also be constructed in the area.
Post and Telecommunication Secretary Nazmul Ahsan Chowdhury was present at the PM s office during the opening of the digital exchange.
BSS adds: All district headquarters would be bought under digital telecommunication
"We have adopted the optl< <*l fiber technology to bring radical changes in the sector and contemplating to set up Sub-Marine Cable technology in the country." Mohammad Nasim said.
Responding to the demand ot (he local people. Mohammad Nasim renamed the telephone exchange as Khllgaon Digital" Telephone Exchange
network before completion of the tenure of this government.
Home, Post and Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Nasim said this while inaugurating the 14.500-line Bashabo Digital Telephone Exchange under Greater Dhaka Telephone Project in the city yesterday.
He said no government in the past took steps for the development of post and telecommunication sector in line with the expectation of people during the last 21 years.
Nasim also said the Greater Dhaka Telephone Project is being completed within the stipulated time without any extra expenditure. He said a total of 1.38.000 new digital telephone lines instead of 67.000 would be installed In the capital and its adjacent areas and the neglected city dwellers are already getting the benefit.
The function was addressed, among others, by State Minister for T&T M A Rouf Chowdhury. Deputy Minister for LGRD Saber Hossain Chowdhury. Chairman of the Parliamentary’ Standing Committee on Post and Telecommunication Ministry Kamal Ahmed Ma-jumder, Chairman of Bangladesh Telephone and Telegraph Board (BTTB) Khandkar Abdul Matin and General Manager (South) S M Khabiruzzainan.
The minister said only three to four districts including the capital were under digital telephone network before the Awami League came to power, but we have brought 30 district headquarters under digital telecommunication network within four years.
He said the BNP government initiated the Greater Dhaka Telephone Project but it was delayed for three years due to their corruption and mismanagement Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after coming to power took initiative to reopen the project following discussion with the Japanese government, he added.
Mohammad Nasim said Er-shad and Khaleda Zia had assigned two private telephone companies to bring all thanas under digital telephone network by enacting laws barring others to do it.
He said the government believes that law is for the people, people is not for law’ and this is why the government has repealed the anti-people law and taken up new projects to bring the thana headquarters under digital telephone network. A total of 83 thana headquarters would be brought under digital telephone network within the year 2001. he added.
The'minister said the losses in T&T can be stopped only-through the introduction of digital technology in the sector. The earning of the T&T has almost doubled through the introduction of this system, he added.
Mohammad Nasim said that the government has broken the monopoly business of a mobile phone company and gave licenses to four other companies and people are getting mobile phone services at much reduced cost. A proposal for introduction of mobile phone services by T&T is under active consideration of the government, he said.