Essay on

Smart Bangladesh

1. What is the vision of Smart Bangladesh?

2. How Bangladesh is Initiating the effort?

3. How to control the major and minor development projects?

4. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of making Bangladesh a developed country.

Answer

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Proposed at a Parliamentary session in the year 2022 that she wants to
make Bangladesh into a "Smart Bangladesh" and the vision or the ultimate target year will be 2041.
Smart Bangladesh is defined by making the economy, technology development, and the outburst of
Artificial Intelligence as activities such as the education sector, health sector, and construction sector will
be transformed into Smart systems.

PM Sheikh Hasina announced Vision 2021 to build an IT-rich Bangladesh in the modern form of Sonar
Bangla, the dream of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Bangladesh has
made a revolution in the spread of modern information technology through the implementation of this
concept. The speed at which technology has developed in the world is truly incredible. Digital
Bangladesh is no longer a dream but a reality.

Smart Bangladesh on Four Pillars whose Initiatives are being taken to build a smart Bangladesh of the
future based on four pillars. There will be four pillars to build 'Smart Bangladesh'. Such as Smart Citizen,
Smart Economy, Smart Government, and Smart Society. In Smart Bangladesh, everything will be done
through technology. There the citizens will be proficient in the use of technology and manage the entire
economy through it. The government aims to build a cost-effective, sustainable, intelligent, knowledge-
based, innovative, and smart Bangladesh by 2041.

The government has changed the name of Digital Bangladesh Task Force to Smart Bangladesh Task Force.
Around two lakh schools, land offices, and health complexes will be brought under fiber optic by 2025 as
part of the Smart Bangladesh plan. One student and one laptop will be launched to ensure the online
participation of students. IT Business Incubator will be developed as a center for the development of
talent, intelligence, and knowledge of the young generation. Data Security Act, Digital Services Act,
Sheikh Hasina Institute of Frontier Technology (SHIFT) Act, and so on.

In continuation of the successful implementation of Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021, the government is
now working to build a smart Bangladesh with an innovative and knowledge-based economy by 2041
with a state-of-the-art power grid, green economy, skill development, recognition of freelancing
professions, and urban development. Besides, various activities will be digitized thus we can make this
16 crore nation into a technologically developed in all ways.