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Campus meeting place. Photo: collected
Students from all public and private universities in the country will be able to use the Internet for a whole month for 100 rupees to continue their education online. In that case, students must use the government mobile operator Teletalk SIM.
Students from all universities in the country that use the BDREN platform administered by the University Scholarship Commission (UGC) will obtain this facility.
The UGC said in a press release Wednesday.
Currently, 42 public and 6 private universities are using the BDREN platform. Students will be able to participate in classes online through the Zoom app. To do this, students must be under the Teletalk network.
It says in the notification, this facility will be available for Rs 100 per monthly recharge. The reloaded money will be credited to your original account. This money can be spent on voice and data calls. Unused money will be added to the next recharge. However, this feature cannot be used if you recharge below Rs 100 and you have no minimum data on SIM.
BDREN sent a letter to all mobile operators, including Teletalk Bangladesh Limited, on July 21 to allow students to use free educational resources online.
In response to Bidiren’s call, Teletalk issued a letter of consent on August 27.
Teletalk believes that through this initiative, a large portion of the students will be under its network during online classes.
In this context, the chairman of the Bangladesh University Grants Commission (UGC), Prof. Kazi Shahidullah said: ‘This initiative to maintain online education activities of students at university level during the Corona epidemic is very timely. . He thanked the Ministry of Education, the Department of Posts and Telecommunications and Teletalk Bangladesh Limited for responding to the initiative to provide Internet bandwidth at a nominal fee.
