Dhaka, Nov. 9 -- Three new ICT-sector development projects involving Tk 46.33 billion have been proposed all of which are lookalikes of previous ones allegedly doomed to failure in set goals for corruption, misuse of public funds.

Officials at the Planning Commission hold such view about the projects designed by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division with an avowed objective of ensuring advances of the worldwide fastest-growing sector of knowledge economy.

One of them is 'Digital Service Transformation for Access and Resilience (D-STAR)' project, conceived with an estimated cost of Tk 31.72 billion, including Tk 31.06 billion in World Bank support, which aims to strengthen the capacity of the domestic information commun...