Establishment of a model educational city in Peshawar is a dream of the MMA government and in order to materialise this dream, the provincial cabinet had already deliberated upon it and practical work would be launched soon in this regard.
Under a plan, standard educational institutions would be formed in public-private partnership to equip the students of the province with the latest knowledge of science and technology.
NWFP Minister for Information Technology Hussain Ahmad Kanju stated this while addressing a certificate distribution ceremony at Brains Post Graduate College of Information Technology as a chief guest on Monday.
Chairman, Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Peshawar, Dr Ali Khan Bithanni, Director Finance, Agriculture University Peshawar Professor Dr Farzand Ali, BISE Peshawar Secretary Professor Jamshed Khan and Chairman, Colleges Association Misbahuddin also attended the ceremony. The minister on this occasion distributed certificates amongst the participants of professional training courses, including call center training, CISCO Certified Network Associate Programmes and office automation courses.
Highlighting the activities of his college, Director Brains College Zafarullah Khan informed that his institution for the first time introduced the new programme of Call Center Training in NWFP besides teaching 15 different disciplines of information technology.
The IT minister said that in order to cope with the challenges of the present era of science and information technology, the MMA government had planned to set up center of excellence where the outgoing students of IT universities could get practical training like house job doctors to enable them to face the global challenges efficiently.
Similarly, establishment of international standard IT Park also approved and acquisition of land for the purpose was in the process, he added. He said that health, education, revenue, police, judiciary and transport departments were being computerised to ensure corruption free governance in the province saying that after successful completion of the pilot projects, it would be replicated in the entire province.
Referring to paperless government in NWFP, Kanju maintained that all the departments had been linked through internet and web hosting services and web portal facilities have been launched for the purpose. To promote STIT literacy, virtual teaching project was also being started and in its first phase science subjects would be taught through multi media.
Highlighting the importance of time, the minister asked students not to waste their precious time and make its better use particularly for the welfare of humanity as it was the success in this world and afterworld.