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Summary Federal govt is going to use Rs4.6 billion on projects in the Information Technology (IT) sector.
These projects, costing more than Rs22 billion are intended for human resource development, development of IT industry, firming e-Government and infrastructure development.An official said in human resource development area, the national ICT scholarship program would continue to deliver scholarship to 400 students from remote areas for four-year Bachelor degree in various national universities.The National ICT Research and Development Fund is targeted with objectives to allow invention and creativity amongst students and help in creating linkages between academia-industry-government.He said the scholarship program is extended to deliver opportunity to students who could not get advantage from it in Fall 2011 semester and added for year 2011 (Extended Spring 2012) there will be no ICT Scholarship Award Test.Students are required to take admission in partaking universities, of their choice, on their own. So far more than 1,900 fully funded scholarships of Rs1.8 billion awarded to students from rural and non-metropolitan areas.More than 2,500 teachers have been qualified to make their students for taking entrance exam of the Participating Universities while around 36,000 students have been trained with a view to take them at equality with their competitors from metropolitan and urban areas.He said in IT industry development area, emphasis would be on improving the infrastructure to attract more international companies to undertake business in Pakistan alongside the domestic IT companies.He further said standardisation of Pakistani software industry on CMMI will facilitate in improving the process within the companies by assuming internationally accepted best practices and therefore attracting international business while Open Source Resource Centre will recollect on acting as a center of technologies for IT professionals and companies.The official further expanded that in e-government area, projects will continue to be the centre-piece of public sector IT enterprises.
