REPORT ON “BATIGHAR”

As a part of the course Development Communication and Media Advocacy (MSJ-205) of MSJ Department of University of Liberal arts, the students of the course has visited a development project `Batigher’, is a project of Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID) in Singair, Manikganj.

As I said `Batigher’ is a development project of Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID), cooperation with GrameenPhone to serve the village people with Information and communication technology for their benefit.

Helping in agriculture: they have a lot of program which actually very helpful for root level farmers. As they said they provide information’s about proper time of irrigation, using method of fertilizer and pesticide without any service charge.

Training programs: the `Batighar’ is giving training about how to operate computer including Basic Office Management Course, and Basic Graphics Course. They have an excellent and easy English learning program with ‘English Learning Games’ for school going children.

Other services: `Batigher’ also providing some informative services like Visa information, passport information, driving license information, Internet browsing, Email Service. In this case they charged a little cost.

It can be said from my own observation or point of view that the ‘Bathigher’ is a business place for the unemployed people and an information center for the village. But they are not very familiar with their all facilities or service. They are founded `batigher’ about 4-5 month before, but their performance is quite good.

People are not very concern about the name `batigher’ infect, but the people are very familiar with the service. If they want to be a sustainable project they have to more careful about their service and the participation of local people.