Staff Reporter:
Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus yesterday at a meeting with senior government officials emphasized the importance of digitization to fight corruptions.
The meeting held at the State Guest House Jamuna focused on immediate actions for fast-track digital adoption.
Some important decisions were taken in the meeting included making submission of tax via the e-return portal compulsory for all government officials in the greater Dhaka region and encouraging large corpo-rations to adopt e-return of the organization.
The decision to launch a nationwide awareness campaign on digitization was also taken in the meeting, while renewed focus was given on improving the investment environment by digitizing NBR, the Na-tional Single Window project.
Other decisions included ensuring interconnectivity of systems across government organizations by keep-ing an eye on the whole picture and full digitization roadmap and execution timeline for land related public services.
Md. Siraj Uddin Mia, principal secretary to the Chief Adviser; Md. Abdur Rahman Khan, chairman, National Board of Revenue (NBR); ASM Saleh Ahmed, senior secretary, ministry of land; and Chow-dhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun, executive chairman, Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA); were present at the meeting, among others.
