{"id":5008,"date":"2024-02-16T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2024-02-16T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T05:00:14","slug":"govt-working-for-building-rajshahi-as-modern-smart-city-palak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=5008","title":{"rendered":"Govt working for building Rajshahi as modern, smart city: Palak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff correspondent :<\/p>\n<p>State Minister for Post, Telecommunication and<br \/>\nInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed Palak, MP, today<br \/>\nsaid the government has been working to build Rajshahi as modern, time-<br \/>\nfitting and smart city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around a decade ago, we had many dreams but now we see that many of those<br \/>\ndreams have been materialized. Preliminary, it was very challenging to finish<br \/>\nthe works but as a result of farsighted development policies of the<br \/>\ngovernment we have achieved success,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The state minister came up with the observation while distributing allotments<br \/>\namong the investors at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-tech Park here today as<br \/>\nchief guest.<\/p>\n<p>He also distributed prize-money among three winning teams of Smart Rajshahi<br \/>\nInnovation Challenge- 2023 on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>With Commissioner of Rajshahi division Dr Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir in the<br \/>\nchair, the ceremony was addressed, among others, by Deputy Commissioner<br \/>\nShamim Ahmed, Director of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-tech Park Project<br \/>\nFazlul Haque and Director of Bangladesh Hi-tech Park Authority Barrister<br \/>\nGolam Sarwar Bhuiyan.<\/p>\n<p>The state minister said the hi-tech park has been playing a vital role to<br \/>\nincrease flow of foreign currency in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Established on 31 acres of land at a cost of around Taka 300 crore, the park<br \/>\nhas opened up a new door of employment opportunities for the youths.<\/p>\n<p>He hoped that employment of around 14,000 youths will be generated here<br \/>\nwithin the next five to ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff correspondent : State Minister for Post, Telecommunication and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed Palak, MP, today said the government has been working to build Rajshahi as modern, time- fitting and smart city. &#8220;Around a decade ago, we had many dreams but now we see that many of those dreams have been materialized. Preliminary, it was very challenging to finish the works but as a result of farsighted development policies of the government we have achieved success,&#8221; he added. The state minister came up with the observation while<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_5980380192037842_108390337697511":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/5010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}