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Monday 17 Aug 2015 - 17:15 Makkah mean time-2-11-1436
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Dhaka, (IINA) - Bangladeshi Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said the government had taken initiative to develop and launch the country’s first satellite “Bangabandhu Satellite-1” by 2016 or 2017, OnIslam reported.
“The government has already selected an orbital slot and signed a contract for launching the first ever satellite into space,” Muhith said while placing his seventh consecutive budget in the parliament.
He proposed an allocation of Tk30million ($390 thousand) for information and communication technology division and post and telecommunication division for the 2015-2016 fiscal.
Highlighting his government’s success in the process of country’s digitization, Muhith said the country’s mobile phone users have risen to 12.47 million by April 2015.
The tele-density and internet density by this period have gone up 80.1 per cent and 29.3 per cent respectively, he said.
A total of 4,547 union information centres have been set up to reduce the digital discrimination in the country, he said, citing examples of digitalization in birth registration, agricultural information, health and education sectors through Access to Information (A2i) program.
In agriculture sector, digital services have been provided to the farmers through video conference in some 245 information and communication centres.
Also health services were ensured in 64 civil surgeon offices and all subdistrict health complexes.
More than 20,000 educational institutions were introduced with multimedia classrooms and laptops with internet connection so far. Also the government launched a web portal “Shikkhok Batayon” to serve the teachers with digital content.
Bangladesh's first geostationary communications satellite will be operated by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
BD-1 satellite is expected to be located at 119° East longitude geostationary slot. The total cost of the satellite is 410 million US dollars.
BD-1 carries a total of 40 Ku band and C-band transponders and capacity of 1,600 megahertz (MHz) with life span of 15 years.
Minister Muhith said establishment of Kaliakoir High-tech Park in Gazipur district and Software Technology Park in Jessore is underway.
In addition, for the development of digital infrastructure regionally, land has been demarcated to establish Mohakhali IT Village in Dhaka, ChandradweepCloudchar in Barisal, electronic city in Sylhet and Barind Silicon City in Rajshahi.
Simultaneously, activities for land selection are ongoing to establish high-tech and software technology parks in Khulna, Chittagong and Rangpur divisions.
Besides, with a view to developing IT industry in all the districts, initiatives have been taken to establish IT villages in 12 districts in the first phase. Video conferencing system has been installed in 800 government offices so far.
Apart from this, a project has been undertaken to establish broadband network to provide broadband internet services to the entire country.
SM/IINA
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