Low-price laptops manufactured by government-owned Telephone Shilpa Sangstha will hit the market this month, telecommunications minister Raziuddin Ahmed Raju said in parliament yesterday.
The laptop will cost Tk 10,000 to Tk 12,000.
In a scripted answer, the minister said replying to lawmakers’ queries that the present government took number of steps to make Telephone Shilpa Sangstha a profitable organisation.
In the meantime the organisation started marketing caller ID enabled telephone sets, mobile charger and batteries and digital electric meter and made a profit of Tk 14 lakh in 2009-2010 fiscal year, he added.
Gradually it started production of laptop and mobile phone sets and solar panels.
The minister said his ministry has taken 12 other development projects which costs over Tk 1,500 crore to increase telecommunications service.
Courtesy of The Daily Star
