Speakers at a seminar here today underscored the need for speedy implementation of mobile banking service across the country for the greater interest of bringing rural people under the banking facilities.
With the introduction of mobile banking service, they said, people of all strata, including rural people, who are deprived of banking facilities, would get such facilities very easily as there are 66 million Cellphone subscribers in the country. It would also help implement the present government’s vision to build Digital Bangladesh by 2021, the speakers added.
The seminar titled ‘Digital Bangladesh and the Role of Mobile Banking’ was arranged as part of the nine-day Digital ICT Fair, being held at Multiplan Computer City at Elephant Road.
General Manager (IT and Billing) of Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd Md Habibur Rahman Khan attended the seminar as the chief guest, while former president of Bangladesh Computer Samity and IT consultant of Eastern Bank Ltd Omar Faruq Khandakar was present as special guest. With Convenor of the fair Towfique Ehsan in the chair, the keynote paper was presented at the seminar by Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Pragati Systems Dr Shahadat Ullah Khan.
Convenor of the Event and Seminar Committee Engineer Subrata  Sarkar was the moderator of the seminar.
It was also attended by branch mangers and IT officials of different banks in the city.

Source: The Independent/ Bangladesh/ Jan-04-2011