Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) intends to make all its civic services digitalised and automated in phases for benefit of the city dwellers.
“We are pledged bound to make the services transparent and accountable through freeing those from all sorts of corruption and manipulation,” said RCC Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton.
He was addressing as chief guest the inauguration of a month-long computer training course and closing and certificate-giving ceremony of another similar course in Rajshahi on Thursday afternoon.
RCC organised the courses for its ward councillors, officers and employees at Rajshahi College Sheikh Russell Digital Laboratory.
Chaired by RCC Secretary Rejaul Karim, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Panel Mayor Shariful Islam Babu and ward councillors Abdul Momin and Nadia Begum and principal of Rajshahi College Prof Habibur Rahman.
Mayor Liton urged the trainees to put in their best efforts to make their services more popular and dynamic so that they can earn trust and confidences of the citizens through providing services to the community people.
He detailed the objectives, implementation strategy and status of the digital programme saying the major objectives of the process are to provide the people with all necessary services at their doorsteps, ensuring accountability and transparency towards establishing a knowledge-based society and good governance.
‘Digital Bangladesh’ was one of the major election pledges of the present government, he added.
As part of fulfilment of this pledge, the government has established digital centres and is providing necessary ICT services at the grassroots level, BSS reports quoting Mayor Liton.
Liton said the grassroots people are getting their information related necessary services from the digital centres being operated in all areas.
He urged the participants to supplement the government endeavour through the best uses of knowledge acquired from the training.