Calling on universities to play a role in building Smart Bangladesh

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has urged the universities of the country to work towards the realization of the goal of building Smart Bangladesh by 2041. On Wednesday (24 April) as part of the implementation of the e-Governance and Innovation Action Plan 2023-24, the UGC member Professor Dr. Md. Sajjad Hossain.

UGC Member Prof Dr advised the country’s universities to lead new innovations through research. Md. Sajjad Hossain.

Professor Sajjad Hossain said that the website of the university is not updated regularly. In addition, the websites lack the data needed to be ranked globally.

Professor Sajjad Hossain suggested to update the information of all indicators of ranking including research, innovation, teacher-student ratio on the website of all the universities of the country.

Director of Research Support and Publication Department of UGC Dr. Md. Under the chairmanship of Fakhrul Islam, the secretary of the commission gave a speech as a special guest. Ferdous Zaman.

Additional Director of Research Support and Publication Department. Shaheen Siraj delivered the vote of thanks on the occasion.

In the presentation by Dwijendra Chandra Das, Senior Assistant Director and Focal Point of Innovation Committee, IMCT Department of UGC, the Focal Point of Innovation Committee of 46 public universities and concerned officials participated in the workshop.