Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Prof Ahsan Iqbal instructed the Ministry of Information Technology to pinpoint in-demand skills, and faculty arrangements in regards to the project involving Huawei training 200,000 students over pakistan.
The planning minister chaired an important meeting to follow up on the Prime Minister’s recent visit to China, focusing on the progress of mutually agreed projects between Pakistan and China.
The minister underscored the need for an overarching national digitization strategy under the Digital Pakistan Initiative to prompt development within the country. He emphasized the need for the participation of private IT sector stakeholders in order to guarantee relevant growth in the students’ skills.
Ahsan also involved the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to ensure that university computer labs became accessible to Huawei trainees, guaranteeing high quality education for them.
Training certificates with specific durations and courses spanning six months to one year were also discussed concerning the plan to train 1,000 agricultural professionals in China.
As reported, the aim of all this was to boost the country’s productivity and expertise in the agricultural sector by a large extent.
The minister also reviewed tube well solarization so as to cut costs, be sustainable and eco-friendly.
There were 1.5 million tube wells in Pakistan, of which 80% are diesel-powered and annually consume 3.15 billion liters of diesel worth Rs 908 billion, reported officials from the Ministry of Food Security and Research.
The meeting was attended by Secretary Planning Awais Manzur Sumra and officials from the Ministry of Power, National Highway Authority (NHA) and the CPEC Secretariat.
On the occasion, the NHA briefed the committee on their developments on the signed Framework Agreement for the Realignment of KKH Phase II (Thakot-Raikot) which covered 241 km along with multiple feasibility studies and signed MoUs.
