Telecom world

Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication Anusha Rahman, while attending a Telecom World Event in Hungary, underscored the priority for smart city, online transactions, e-commerce, e-banking, e-health, e-government and other e-initiatives as drivers for new market segments in Pakistan.
Any Pakistani who knows the importance of these initiatives in this modern era would laud the efforts of the minister but it is also important that before starting these initiatives, we should first set our basics right. In our country, we have been making fabulous plans from time to time but when it comes to implementation of these plans, we are seriously lacking. Take the case of online transactions only, which was one of the initiatives discussed in Hungary. Online transaction is meant to facilitate clients of any organisation but the high-ups of the National Savings Scheme ‘facilitate’ their ‘valued’ clients by asking them to personally visit these centres every month to collect their profit. This organisation (National Savings) has still not implemented the system of transferring profit to bank accounts of investors at the end of the month as is being done by various banks in the country.
Air Cdre (r) Azfar A Khan
Rawalpindi