Government mobile operator TeletalkBangladesh Limited will provide internet bandwidth at nominal cost to thestudents of public and private universities of the country to continue theironline education activities. Students from all universities in the countryusing the BDREN platform run by the Bangladesh University Grants Commission(UGC) will get this facility.

At present, 42 public and 8 private universitiesare using BDREN platform. Students will be able to participate in classesonline through the Zoom application. For this, students have to be under thenetwork of Teletalk.

The facility will be available for a monthlyrecharge of Tk 100, the UGC said in a press release on Wednesday (September 2).The recharged money will be credited to his original account. This money can bespent on voice calls and data. Unused money will be added to the next recharge.However, this facility cannot be availed if you recharge below Tk 100 and donot have minimum data in the SIM.

The notification further said that BDREN sent aletter to all mobile operators including Teletalk Bangladesh Limited on July 21to enable students to use free online education resources. In response to Bdren\'scall, Teletalk issued a letter of consent on August 27.

In the letter, Teletalk said that Bdren\'s majestyis feeling lucky to be involved in the national crisis. Teletalk thinks thatthrough this initiative a huge portion of the students will come under theirnetwork during online classes.

In this context, the chairman of the UGC,Professor. Kazi Shahidullah said the initiative to keep students online at theuniversity level during the Corona epidemic is very timely. He thanked theMinistry of Education, the Department of Posts and Telecommunications andTeletalk Bangladesh Limited for responding to the initiative to provideinternet bandwidth at nominal cost.

The UGC Chairman expressed his gratitude to theMinister of Education and the Minister of Telecommunications for takingeffective steps to provide free internet bandwidth to the students to keep thecountry\'s higher education activities afloat.

The Education Minister recently expressed optimismthat measures would be taken within the first week of September to enablestudents to access digital devices and internet at low cost.