Dhaka: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has asked two ministries and two government departments to digitize their daily activities including their public services on priority basis. The ministries and departments are the Land Ministry, Commerce Ministry, National Board of Revenue (NBR), and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA).
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the Chief Adviser today gave necessary instructions to his Special Assistant Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, as stated by Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder. To achieve this goal, a decision has been taken to automate the internal working procedures of the ministries, ensure 100 percent use of electronic files, implement a total enterprise resource planning, along with introducing a digital signature system.
Prof Yunus emphasized the importance of ensuring data interoperability within ministries to facilitate their services more efficiently. He has directed the authorities concerned to take initiatives to exchange data through secure APIs instead of relying on manual form fill-ups, thereby enhancing data interoperability and data exchange.
Taiyeb highlighted that the ministries of Bangladesh have inadvertently created several silos by developing their own digital systems. In such a situation, the urgent responsibility of the government is to ensure interoperability among these silos. As per the instructions of the Chief Adviser, optimum efforts will be made to implement pilot programmes in any way for some major ministries within the next three months, he added.