IT Live: E-commerce makes easy the life of Amena Begum, a private service holder living in city’s Jhawtola area. She is one of the thousands in Bangladesh who see e-commerce as a blessing for them.

Amena feels tired after returning home from her office amid huge traffic jam every day. She even doesn’t want to go outside during her weekly day-off and tries to give time to her family, specially her kids.

So, she has no extra time for shopping. She opts for different e-commerce sites for shopping different commodities, including daily essentials.

This has been possible thanks to ‘digital Bangladesh’ envisioned and implemented by the present Awami League (AL) government under the dynamic and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Now they are buying daily essentials, including rice, salt, pulses and oil, from e-commerce sites. People can buy electronic items, clothes and other items from those sites, they said, adding that it was really difficult for service holders to purchase those items going to markets.

Ayesha said people, especially those in different cities, are inclined to shopping through online and from different e-commerce sites. This practice is becoming more popular among the busy people.

Like in other big cities, the people of Cumilla City Corporation are buying their daily essentials from different e-commerce sites. The online sites had drawn attention by offering discounts on many products during the holy month of Ramadan.

In the same year, the mobile operators started the service of 3G internet. Later, they started the 4G service. The number of smart phone users is also rising tremendously.

Besides, the e-commerce sites also got new investment. According to e-CAB, they have 1,200 members till now and the amount of selling is about Taka 8 crore every year.

Information technology (IT) experts said there are massive changes in trading in country’s big cities. For this, crowds in traditional markets have dropped by about 40 percent.

Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services former president Fahim Mashrur said about 40 percent trading have taken place through different e-commerce (without facebook) which was only 20 percent before COVID-19 situation.

Dhaka, 23 November (campuslive24.com)//BSC