The Sindh Ministry of Information Technology has planned to set up 800 IT institutes throughout the province in next three years with the help of private sector.
This was stated by the provincial minister of IT, Syed Kamal Mustafa while speaking at a workshop on "Slump in the IT Sector of Pakistan," organised by Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education (DIHE) on Friday.
The minister said initially, we are establishing 8 institutes in the province, of these 4 will be established in Karachi, while one institute at Hyderabad and rest of 3 institutes in other parts of the province.
The IT ministry will act as facilitator and enabler for the private sector, he said, adding that we would not going to shelve any project. Kamal said, "We are committed to play our role and we want to be better than India."
There is an economic, political and law and order stability in the province and potential investors are arriving here to invest in several projects like establishing call centres, educational institutions and IT parks, he added.
Kamal Mustafa said the ministry is also looking for professionals from various sectors on voluntary basis to work for betterment of various government departments.
Earlier, The Vice Chancellor of DIHE, Abdullah Dadabhoy lauded the efforts of the President of Pakistan's vision and contribution in the last four years.
He said, "We have to concentrate on the exports of value-added services in the country which could help us boosting our export targets."
This can also increase our export targets because we have a quota of exports on various goods like cotton and others but there is no quota on value-added services in the world.
Presently, the curriculum being taught in our universities is old and obsolete that does not serve the purpose of modern demands to compete, Dadabhoy said, adding that we have to work strictly to maintain quality of our exportable goods.
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