PM orders to establish university in Tarnol

Islamabad, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has declared Tarnol will have a university in the region and he commanded the chief commissioner Islamabad to make strategy in this regard. He revealed this while talking to a delegation of personalities from Tarnol.

The Prime Minister said that by highlighting the national benefits that nations can solve their problems with mutual collaboration.

The prime minister said that the greatest provision is to help the people who are in trouble.

Former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani declared in 2010 that an Engineering University in Multan would be set up, but it could not be built.

In the field of technical and vocational education, Pakistan has only 255,636 students who are getting education in 3,125 different vocational education and training institutes established all over the country.

Currently Pakistan educate 64 technicians out of  per one million population while other advanced countries annually trained around 1500 to 2500 technicians, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) report.

National Science Technology and Innovation (ST & I) Policy 2012 has stated that Pakistan has not got trained people according to the demands, yet Pakistan has made the setting up of Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) in Punjab and National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTEC) at the centre.

Pakistan Council of Science and Technology (PCST) Chairman Dr Mudassar Asrar said that NAVTEC has currently taken a step regarding crash programs which is a productive step in the accurate way. He further said that this advantage should be outspread in positive way.

Technical programs should be improved so as national requirement could be attained, as well as trained manpower for employment abroad could be manipulated.

The successful example of the Pak-Swiss Training Centre of Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) was a upright example of demand skill development.

PCST was also delivering funds for obtaining of less expensive spare parts as compared to other laboratories in the country, he added.