A meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Planning on Sunday suggested the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications to bring Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) under the jurisdiction of law.
It will help increase revenue earnings of the government as well as provide better services to the internet users.
The meeting also recommended making capable the Teletalk so that it can survive in competition with the private cell phone companies.
Committee Chairman Dr Oli Ahmed presided over the meeting, an official release said.
Committee members Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khandoker, Nawab Ali Abbas Khan and Azizul Haque Chowdhury attended the meeting.
The meeting discussed elaborately different projects undertaken by the ministries of land, post and telecommunications and social welfare.
The meeting decided that BTRC, incorporating the opinion of the ministry of post and telecommunications, would apprise the committee how seventy percent share of WARID was sold to Airtel company only for Taka seventy lakh.
About the Ministry of Land, it decided that the ministry would apprise the committee within next three months what steps it has taken to recover illegally occupied government land, how much land has so far been recovered and whether any new incident of land occupying was occurred recently.
About the Ministry of Social Welfare, the meeting decided that proper monitoring should be ensured so that the registered NGOs properly follow the conditions of registration.
Senior officials were present in the meeting.
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