Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Ministry of Education to take effective steps to introduce computer notebooks on massive scale at all schools to free the students from the burden of carrying so many textbooks. She was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the first-ever Bangladesh made laptop, ‘Doel’, at the city’s Bangabandhu Internatio-nal Conference Centre on Tuesday morning. The prime minister also said e-information service would be introduced in 33 districts by this November as the service is already available in 31 other districts.
The much-hyped laptop ‘Doel’ with four different models priced at Tk 10,000, Tk 13,500, Tk 22,000 and Tk 26000 have been produced by the state-run Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS) in collaboration with 2M Corporation Ltd., Dhaka and TFT Technology, Penang, Malaysia. The name ‘Doel’ for the four models have been finalised keeping in mind the nation’s history, as ‘Doel’ is Bangladesh’s national bird. The Primary Model 2102 has been named keeping in mind the February 21, the Language Martyred Day, Basic Model 0703 named on the basis of Bangabandhu’s historic March 7 speech, Standard Model 2603 named on the basis of March 26, the Independence Day and the last Advanced Model 1612 named on the December 16, the National Victory Day. Telephone Shilpa Sangstha and the companies collaborating with it would jointly manufacture a total of 10,000 laptops every month. It would be finalised later when and how the laptops would be marketed. Addressing the opening function, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the ministry concerned to install the e-books in the laptops in the interest of the students. Hasina said new generation would have to be facilitated with the blessings of science and technology. “Our school students have to have access to the latest technologies. I want the students not to go to their schools with bags of books on their shoulders, but only with a notebook,” she said.
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