The projects will help boost morale of talented people. PHOTO: AFP
In this regard, two separate PC-1s have been approved with the consent of Finance Division and Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms, said the focal person for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Mohammad Khalid Siddiqui.
Talking to The Express Tribune, he said the first PC-1 worth Rs56 million aims to carry out a study to find out numerous innovations that have or are taking place in 5,000 industrial units across the country.
The second PC-1 amounting to Rs15 million aims to confer ‘innovation awards’ to the brilliant minds behind those innovations, he said.
These are three-year projects and once the funds are allocated in the upcoming budget, they will be started from July onward, he said.
“It is a fact that Pakistan is blessed with numerous talented people who are coming up with new inventions or ideas in the field of science and technology. But unfortunately at the government level there is no system to explore these talented minds to highlight their work and acknowledge them,” he said.
Siddiqui said currently there are many industrial units where people are coming up with new creative ideas and materialising them as well but their efforts are limited to their units.
“Through this survey, we will also figure out people who were behind quality innovations in the past and their contribution has brought positive change in the industrial sector but their efforts have not yet been acknowledged at the national level,” he said.
Siddiqui hoped that these projects would help boost the morale of talented people working in our industrial units and will also support this sector to progress and compete at international level.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 11th, 2016.
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