State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the government will construct a national digitalised library aiming to create a wide scope for the people to subscribe several thousands of books digitally from any corner of the country.
“A national digital library will be built and other seventy-one libraries would be digitalised aiming to create an ample scope for the people to go through scores of books digitally particularly staying at rural areas,” he said on Thursday.
The state minister for ICT said this while inaugurating ‘Boi Chirtra’, a digital book archive app, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of the independence of Bangladesh at Bangladesh Computer Council auditorium at s Agargaon ICT tower.
Chaired by Senior ICT Division Secretary NM Ziaul Alam, the programme also was addressed, among others, by noted writer and educationist Zafar Iqbal and Managing Director of Dhansiri Digital Limited Shami Kaiser.
Remembering the 1952 Language Movement, the state minister said the language heroes sacrificed their lives to establish the Bangla language in a respected position across the world.
To enrich Bangla as a prosperous language in the field of ICT, Palak said a project has been taken to enrich the Bangla language by the ICT division.