State-own Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS) plans to go for large-scale assembling of its Doel laptops this month to meet its growing demand.

But the telecom gadget manufacturing and assembling company is suffering from an acute fund crisis.

TSS needs around Tk 50 crore for the large-scale production, said Abu Sayed Khan, acting managing director of the company.

The company needs to import parts for assembling the laptops, as it got huge orders from different government institutions, he said.

“We are in talks with banks to get loans,” Khan said.

He said the signing of an agreement between his company and the US software company Microsoft Corporation is under process to use Microsoft's computer operating software for Doel laptops at cheap rates.

TSS signed its non-disclosure agreement with a wing of Microsoft recently but the final agreement would be signed by the end of this month, said AA Md Moyashir, general manager (plant and commercial) ofTSS.

Moyashir said the company plans to assemble more than 10,000laptops a month.

The company has 8,500 laptops in its stock and so far sold 10,000 laptops to government and individual buyers.

The company predicted that it had to produce at least 30,000 to 40,000 Doel laptops By June with the growing demand of the gadgets.

The education department is also waiting to procure 20,000 laptops from TSS with approval from the cabinet division, said aTSS official.

The company aims to assemble one lakh laptops by 2012, said Sunil Kanti Bose, telecom secretary and chairman ofTSS.

The board ofTSS will take decisions on how the required fund for such production will be collected, he said.

Doel laptops first hit the market in October 2011.