Cabinet to get reshuffled; Oath-taking today

[Mage]

Cabinet to get reshuffled; Oath-taking today
Published: January 01, 2018 18:44:31

Narayan Chandra Chanda, Mustafa Jabbar, AKM Shahjahan Kamal, Kazi Keramat Ali.
Speculation is rife that the country’s 50-member cabinet is likely to see an expansion within a day or two.

Several sources say State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda is likely to be sworn in as a full minister in his ministry.

The portfolio remains vacant since the death of Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque in mid-December.


On Monday, Mr Chanda said, “The cabinet secretary approached me to go to the President’s office Tuesday evening.”

Mr Chanda has been serving as a state minister since Awami League formed government after the 2014 elections.

Meanwhile, President of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) Mustafa Jabbar has received a call to go to Bangabhaban on Tuesday evening.

Several sources said the Cabinet Division has also invited lawmaker from Lakshmipur-3 constituency AKM Shahjahan Kamal to attend the oath-taking ceremony scheduled on Tuesday.

Member of the Parliament from Rajbari-1 constituency Kazi Keramat Ali has also been invited to the President’s office on the same day.

When asked, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam declined to comment.

“You’ll get to know when it takes place,” he said.

http://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/national/cabinet-to-get-reshuffled-oath-taking-today-1514829656

 

[Mage]

Finally someone being put in the right place. Mustafa Jabber's expertise and experience will come handy in the ICT sector.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Steve Jabbar
http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/robot_eee/29479388

 

[Kandari-Hushiyaar]

Mustafa Jabbar , most probably is the most hated among Young net users because of his collision with Avro. Good Choice :/

 

[Mage]

Steve Jabbar
http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/robot_eee/29479388

lol...that was interesting.

 

[Bilal9]

Finally someone being put in the right place. Mustafa Jabber's expertise and experience will come handy in the ICT sector.

Agree 100%. This guy will hopefully be put under a separate informatics ministry, other than the one headed by Palak.

I believe the Govt. is thinking about forming a separate ministry for Informatics (National data center) to intensify Digital Bangladesh and e-GOV initiatives. He may be getting that portfolio.

Palak heads up coordination for commercial efforts concerning software development exports.

Tarana Halim of course heads up Telecom, BTRC, Cellphones, Satellites etc.

Let's see what happens.

Mustafa Jabbar , most probably is the most hated among Young net users because of his collision with Avro. Good Choice :/

I guess we can expect a lot of detractors for Mr. Mustafa Jabbar, the guy is a bit idiosyncratic. But instead of this unproductive infighting, he at least deserves praise for bringing Bijoy keyboard into our arena so we can use it.

We in Bangladesh at least had numerous Bangla fonts and keyboards developed in the mid-80's to early 90's for word-processing and digital typeface purposes to use with Adobe type-foundry usage.

The contribution of West Bengal people here was non-existent at that time a usual, all they did was download the free typefaces from the Internet and use them.

lol...that was interesting.

Shamanno Chhit-grostho monei hocchey.

A few screws are loose.

 

[Mage]

Agree 100%. This guy will hopefully be put under a separate informatics ministry, other than the one headed by Palak.

I believe the Govt. is thinking about forming a separate ministry for Informatics (National data center) to intensify Digital Bangladesh and e-GOV initiatives. He may be getting that portfolio.

Palak heads up coordination for commercial efforts concerning software development exports.

Tarana Halim of course heads up Telecom, BTRC, Cellphones, Satellites etc.

Let's see what happens.

The ministry is divided between Palak and Tarana. Both of them are deputy minister, I think. Mustafa Jabber may become full minister and boss of them.

Shamanno Chhit-grostho monei hocchey.

A few screws are loose.

He has had problems with programmers who developed Bijoy. Its said that he took all the credit and treated the programmers like trash. Rest of it seems made up.

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

Sala cutiya Steve Jabbar madafaka will be a minister now! কলিযুগের কেরামতি...

 

[Bilal9]

Sala cutiya Steve Jabbar madafaka will be a minister now! কলিযুগের কেরামতি...

Ha ha ha.

SHW-apa'r peyarer lok hoito.....ke janey.

Anyways - he knows a few things about IT I hope, been involved for a while.

Still better than appointing 'bhua consultants' from next door country.....

Iconic IT expert given ICT ministry
Published : Tuesday, 2 January, 2018 at 11:22 PM Count : 290
Observer Online Desk

Mustafa Jabbar

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has chosen the country’s leading IT entrepreneur Mustafa Jabbar to head the telecom and information technology ministry strengthening her push for ‘Digital Bangladesh’.

After running the ministry with two state ministers—Tarana Halim for posts and telecom and Zunaid Ahmed Palak for ICT—for more than three years, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has now chosen the 68-year-old for the portfolio.

Jabbar, who founded Ananda Computers, is best known for developing the first Bangla keyboard ‘Bijoy’. He heads the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services or BASIS — the trade body of IT entrepreneurs.

On Tuesday, he was sworn in by President Md Abdul Hamid at the Bangabhaban in a major cabinet shuffle. Several government sources confirmed that he will be assigned to steer the telecom and IT ministry.

Narayon Chandra Chanda, who had been serving as the state minister for fisheries and livestock, and MP AKM Shajahan Kamal took oath as ministers. Lawmaker Kazi Keramat Ali was sworn in as a state minister at the same ceremony.

Hasina, who attended Tuesday’s oath-taking ceremony, had kept the telecom and IT portfolio to herself since October 2014, when she fired Abdul Latif Siddique over his controversial comments on hajj.

Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy assists her in the capacity of the ICT affairs adviser to the PM.

Analysts believe Jabbar will add speed to the government’s digitisation efforts ahead of the upcoming national election. He has been in the Awami League-led government’s journey toward building a ‘Digital Bangladesh’ from the very beginning.

Jabbar has been made a technocrat minister as he is not elected to parliament. The Hasina administration’s Religious Affairs Minister Matior Rahman, Science and Technology Minister Architect Yeafesh Osman and Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam are also technocrat ministers.

Jabbar sat on several government committees on ICT affairs, including the prime minister-formed Digital Bangladesh Taskforce. He is also a member of the Bangladesh Copyright Board.

According to his company Ananda Computers, Jabbar floated the idea of a Digital Bangladesh in an article published on Mar 26, 2007.

The next year, the Awami League included the pledge of a ‘Digital Bangladesh’ in its election manifesto.

Born in 1949 in Brahmanbaria, Jabbar graduated in Bangla Literature from Dhaka University.

He had been active in student politics as member of the Bangladesh Chhatra League or BCL and took part in the 1971 Liberation War when he was a university student.

He continued his foray in student politics after the war.

When the BCL split in 1972, Jabbar joined the faction backed by the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, said Dr Mushtaq Hossain, who sits on the standing committee of a faction of the party.

Jabbar started off his career as a journalist with the Daily Ganakantha, which started publishing from Dhaka in early 1972.
In 1973, Jabbar was elected as the publicity secretary of the Dhaka Union of Journalists.

After the Ganakantha was shut, he got involved in the businesses of travel agency, printing and publication.

Jabbar had served as the general secretary of the Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh or ATAB.

He started a venture involving computers and IT in 1987 and launched the Bijoy Bangla Keyboard and software on Dec 16 a year later.

Several of his books on ICT and computers are textbooks for primary, secondary, and higher secondary students and as well as in the undergraduate level.

A founder member of the Bangladesh Computer Samity or BCS and its four-time president, Jabbar has also anchored several television shows on IT.

He has received several awards recognising his role in the expansion of ICT in Bangladesh.

The BASIS has organised a reception for him on Wednesday.

 

[Anubis]

Finally someone being put in the right place. Mustafa Jabber's expertise and experience will come handy in the ICT sector.

My cat has more expertise in ICT than Jabbar Kagu...and I dont even have a cat.