Irregular updates of most of the web sites of the ministries and divisions and callousness about e-mail correspondence among the offices have been identified as reasons for the delay in implementing government decisions, according to a letter that Sheikh Md Wahiduzzaman, principal secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office, issued. The government has undertaken varies programmes to implement the digital Bangladesh by 2021, the letter reads.
As users of the web sites do not get updated information, it has created an adverse impact on them, said the letter that has been sent to all the secretaries asking them to take immediate action and send a detailed report to the Prime Minister’s Office, according to letter a copy of which New Age has obtained.
‘Web sites of the ministries and divisions play an important role in establishing transparency and accountability in government activities. But it has been noticed that most of the web sites are not updated regularly and it has created a negative impact on users of the sites,’ the letter says. ‘The directives for the secretariat stipulates that correspondence among the ministries and divisions should be made through e-mail but in most cases, the directives are flouted.’
The letter has also asked the secretaries to detail all the activities taken for the expansion of information and communications technology under the respective ministries and divisions and offices under them.
It also asked the secretaries to update the web sites immediately.
The principal secretary has also wanted statistics of how many government officials use e-mail in their regular activities.
Secretaries to the finance, the power and energy, the livestock, the manpower, the health, the primary and the mass education ministry told New Age that they had received the letter.
Md Mozammel Haque Khan, secretary to the
energy and mineral resources division, told New Age that they were working in line with the the directive.
-With New Age input
