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Bangladesh National Information Window was launched last June to make various services of the government easily accessible to the people with the help of digital technology. It is actually a web portal made up of 25,000 websites. This review is about how the portal contains the necessary information of the people, how much it is user-friendly, how rich the information is. As part of the government's efforts to bring government services to the doorsteps of the people, the world's largest digital web portal has been launched in Bangladesh. Its name is Bangladesh National Information Window (www.bangladesh.gov.bd). Inaugurating the portal on June 23, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, IT adviser to the Prime Minister, said, "We have verified that there are no 25,000 government websites in one place in any other country in the world." There is only one in Bangladesh now. 'More than 50,000 government officials have been trained to enter information into the information window. The Access to Information (A2I) program was responsible for its planning and implementation. It is better to say that the website www.bangladesh.gov.bd was already there. However, its scope was less then. It was further said at the inauguration ceremony that this information window is viewed by 1.5 million people every day. On the night of 23 July, the ranking and popularity verification website Alexa (www.alexa.com) showed the position of the national information window at number 242 among the websites visited from Bangladesh. The government wants the country's citizens to use the national information window as a 'one-stop service' to access information on agriculture, education, health, law, tourism, etc. It is said that notifications of educational institutions, gazettes, e-services, government forms, citizen charters, lists of officials of various government institutions, more than seven lakh e-directories, lists of freedom fighters, government development activities, names, addresses, phone numbers of public representatives, etc. Information can be found at Batayan. 4,550 at Union level, 14,480 at Upazila level, 4032 at District level, 455 at Divisional level, 64 at District Council level, 46 at Upazila Parishad level, 55 at Ministry-Division level, 345 at Department level and 414 at City Corporation and Municipality level. Information window has been created. There is even an English version of it to introduce Bangladesh to the world, which is commendable. However, there are discrepancies between the Bengali and English versions in providing information. For example, the front page of the Bengali version reads: ‘Under the national window, the construction of about 25,000 web portals (information windows) has been completed for all unions, upazilas, districts, divisions, directorates, ministries and all government departments. With the launch of the portal in all the departments, it will be easier for the people to get information and services. 'On the other hand, the English version says that more than 25,000 portals have been created which are in trial (beta version). In this way, information and statistics of Bengali and English versions can be seen all over the window.