Staff Reporter:
The government has decided to introduce e-filing at its all offices aiming to make its tasks smooth and check corruption.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting on the country’s economy held at the Chief Advis-er’s Office (CAO) with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in the chair.
Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, Industries Adviser Adilur Rahman Khan, Planning and Education Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud, Commerce Adviser Sheikh Bashir Uddin, Food Adviser Ali Imam Majumder, Principal Secretary to the Chief Adviser Md Siraj Uddin Mia, BIDA Execu-tive Chairman Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun, Finance Division Secretary Dr Md Khairuz-zaman Mozumder and Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Ahsan H Mansur were present, among oth-ers, at the meeting.
Briefing media about the decisions of the meeting at the Foreign Service Academy here this even-ing, Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said, many government offices have no e-filing system and those offices are running manually, making the government’s decision-making process slow.
So, Alam said, the Chief Adviser yesterday instructed all concerned to accelerate the e-filing pro-cess in all government offices.
Citing the examples of other countries, he said the e-filing helps bring down corruption to a mini-mal level.
The press secretary said the European Union (EU) has informed Bangladesh how Estonia checked corruption by introducing e-filing system and they want to share the Estonia’s experience with Bangladesh.
Replying to a question, he said if the e-fling is introduced, the files of the government works could be monitored and tracked.
He said the meeting also discussed the government decision for evaluating the country’s mega pro-jects through third party.
“There was an observation that on an average, all development projects taken in the last 15 years were overvalued by about 70 percent using political influence. Thus, public money worth about US$ 14 to 24 billion was drained out, Alam said.
The meeting discussed how the mega projects would be reevaluated through the third party and how the country’s economy would be accelerated.
Chief Adviser’s Senior Assistant Press Secretary Foyez Ahammad and Assistant Press Secretary Suchismita Tithi were present.
