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for Growth, Employment and Governance Project. The total cost of the project is USD 71 million. The
project aims to create an estimated 30,000 direct jobs in the IT and ITES sectors, which has the potential
to create up to 120,000 indirect jobs, and expects to increase the IT and ITES industry revenue by over
$200 million by January 2018. Among the direct jobs 9,000 will be for women.
The project will also establish basic e-Government foundations, to support governance reforms and
significantly improve the governments efficiency and effectiveness. Specifically, the proposed technology
foundation will enable all ministries and agencies to host their systems and information on a shared
datacenter; exchange information and collaborate using standardized frameworks; and protect data
through information security policies and standards.
Availability of policies, standards and guidelines for enterprise architecture and information security.
BCC is the implementing agency of the project worth about Taka 572.48 crore. Of
the total amount, the World Bank is providing $70 million US dollars and the rest by
the Government of Bangladesh. The project is expected to be completed by 2018.
The training grant will complement the GOBs existing National ICT Internship
Program as it will support training from a company perspective; and the design and
operations of the training grant program will take guidance from similar initiatives
being implemented in other countries. This grant will enable the recruiting
companies to provide essential computing equipments such as laptop, computer etc
to the new knowledge workers for establishing work environment. This will enable
the trained workforce to acquire industry experience to become world class
knowledge worker. The training grant will also be designed to have a two-level
structure, in order to support the short-term and quick-win needs of the industry,
and support the ITES skills requirement over the remaining project period. In order
to promote social inclusion in the industry, the grant will also be designed to provide
higher incentives to companies to train women, and disabled and indigenous
Bangladeshis. An operational manual will be developed by BCC and approved by the
Bank within six months of the project implementation start date. The manual will
provide details on the training grant program, eligibility criteria, qualifying criteria,
grant calculation, disbursement plan, and application procedure and monitoring.