Most computer storeowners of the 'Bangladesh Computer Society City,' at Shere-Bangla Nagar, blame the downfall primarily on the decrease in cash flow and therefore, a decline in the consumption by most customers. Other entrepreneurs have a number of reasons for the downward trend. Some opinined that the target market of these computer stores were either 'busy' or just not interested. Mainly, the target market for the previous five year period were the teenage and school going kids, whose interest seemed to have diminished recently.

This lowered interest is resulting from the unemployment level of recent graduates from computer science departments of the private and public city universities.

"Due to the unemployment of such students, their immediate younger siblings are less motivated to learn about computers," said Mahbubul Haque, the manager of Daffodil Computers branch at BCS city.

"These existing group of graduates do not even have the proper amount of information technology based jobs in the city, where they can complete their internship."

"Our daily sales turnover was around Tk 5 to 8 lacs but recently it has been cut down to Tk 2 to 3 lacs," said Haque. "The government should come forward and help us in these dire times, by improvising and generating the information technology based jobs and stimulating an aggregate demand for computer as a whole."

"Most departments and offices of the city are buying computers and so on, but very few of them are actually utilising these efficiently." Said Sabur Khan, current president of Bangladesh Computer Society and member of the Information Communication Technology trust force.