History of Batayan

Bangladesh National Information Service is under the supervision of the Cabinet Department of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh under the A2I (Access to Information) program with the aim of guaranteeing the right of the people to receive information and guaranteeing the receipt of paid services from government offices, including about twenty five thousand in the country including all unions, upazilas, districts, divisions, directorates and ministries. An integrated form of the web site or web portal of the government department. [Bangladesh National Information Broadcasting was launched last June to easily deliver various services of the government to the people with the help of digital technology. The world's largest digital web portal has been launched in Bangladesh as part of the government's efforts to bring government services to people's doorsteps. Its name is Bangladesh National Information Bureau (www.bangladesh.gov.bd). Inaugurating this portal on June 23, Prime Minister's Information Technology Adviser Sajib Wazed Joy said, "We have verified that no other country in the world has 25,000 government websites in one place. Only in Bangladesh now. More than 50,000 government officials have received training in data entry. It was planned and implemented by the Access to Information (A2I) programme. It is good to say that there was a website at the address www.bangladesh.gov.bd earlier. But then its scope was less. It was also said in the opening ceremony that 1.5 million people see this information every day. On the night of July 23, the ranking and popularity checking website Alexa (www.alexa.com) showed that National Information Broadcasting was ranked 242 among the websites viewed from Bangladesh. And in the world at number 82,835.

It is the government's desire that the citizens of the country will use the National Information Service as a 'one stop service' to get information on agriculture, education, health, law, tourism etc. It is said that educational institution circulars, gazettes, e-services, government forms, citizen charters, lists of officials of various government institutions, more than seven lakh e-directories, lists of freedom fighters, government development activities, names, addresses, phone numbers of people's representatives, etc. are all information 'Bangladesh National' Information can be found at Batayan'. 4,550 at Union level, 14,460 at Upazila level, 4032 at District level, 455 at Divisional level, 64 at Zilla Parishad level, 488 at Upazila Parishad level, 55 at Ministry-Department level, 345 at Directorate level and 414 at City Corporation and Municipal level. A national information bulletin has been developed. It even has an English version to introduce Bangladesh to the world court, which is commendable. However, there is a discrepancy between the Bengali and English versions in providing information. For example, the preface of the first page of the Bengali edition reads: 'The construction of about 25,000 web portals (information portals) has been completed for all government departments including unions, upazilas, districts, divisions, directorates, ministries of the country under the national database. If portals are launched in all departments, it will be easier for people to access information and services.' On the other hand, the English version says that more than 25 thousand portals have been created which are in experimental (beta) status.