The cabinet on Monday approved a draft of the ‘National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Policy-2015’.

The approval came from the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

After the meeting, cabinet secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the existing ICT Policy has been reformed for making it time-befitting one.

He said the vision of the plan is to establish a transparent and accountable government through ICT expansion.

A new article has been added to the existing policy. There are 10 specific objectives, 56 strategic themes, 306 items in this new article alongside taking short, mid and long-term plans to be implemented by various ministries by 2016, 2018 and 2021 respectively.

Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan also said the policy has been prepared consulting with stakeholders concerned, holding inter-ministerial meetings, workshops and taking opinions from different ministries.

While answering a question on whether social communication media users will be restricted under this policy, Mosharraf said it will be clear after the policy is exposed.