Federal Secretary Ministry of Production Sajjad Saleem Hotiana has urged the Technology Upgradation and Skill Development Company (Tusdec) to work on new and innovative projects relevant to transmutation of contemporary technology.
He was speaking at the 31st Board meeting of the company on Friday where he was briefed about the company's vision and its accomplishments over the years of its establishment, company's spokesperson shared.
Smeda General Manager Khalid Kifah and Tusdec Chief Executive Officer Basit Maqsood Abbasi attended the meeting He directed to strengthen the stream of efforts further ahead to make it an apex platform for knowledge management. The meeting was commenced with a brief presentation on Tusdec projects in the pipeline and the broad - brimming array of those implemented by the company since its incorporation.
Secretary endorsed Tusdec initiatives of TVET (Technical Vocational Education and Training) sector reform with notable international donors under implementation in KP, Fata, AJK and Sindh.
Apprising of the company's initiatives towards skill development, the Board of Directors directed the top management to steer its focus more towards planning and implementing various programs of sophisticated technological assistance to support the key and emerging industrial clusters of Pakistan.
The board was also briefed about a recently initiated project under which Tusdec intends to support the solar power industry of Pakistan with the availability of relevant technical workforce; the action was affirmatively recognised by the sojourning authorities. According to the company spokesperson, the board was also briefed on various sectors (Surgical Instruments, Programmable Logical Controls, Renewable Energy, Material Testing) identified by Tusdec R&D to be fostered in terms of common facilitation for technology enhancement and manpower training.
The board evaluated the company's performance in the previous year; while assessing it positively the board encouraged the company's management to strive further ahead to sustain its own running capital while augmenting the national economy through its large-scale interventions of technology up-gradation and skill enhancement.
The board was apprised with the company's business plan FY 2013-14 for that they approved the budget while suggesting little significant strategic amelioration.
Meanwhile, the Secretary visited CR&DI (Cement Research and Development Institute) and advised the management for the up-gradation of its testing facilities for which the MoP would extend its possible support. Board also took a round of the NIDA Lahore centre, its state-of-the-art instruction facilities.
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