The process of distributing 125,000 laptop will start in the last week of January and by the end of March 2012 the process of laptop distribution will be completed among “Stars”, the word Shahbaz Sharif repeatedly used for the young winners of the laptops.
He was the guest of honor at ” How to stay safe online“, a function organized by Google Pakistan, P@SHA and Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) at IT Park, Lahore.
He also announced that Government of Punjab is all ready to start a dedicated IT university in Lahore. Initially, it’s campus will be opened in Lahore IT Park where a floor has been allocated for this purpose. Later, the university will be shifted to a much larger place, “Knowledge Park”, which is already reserved for this purpose on the Ring Road Lahore.
For establishing this university, Government of Punjab is partnering with top universities in the world, including Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA and Middle-east Technical University (METU), Turkey. This will be a start of new era of IT education, R&D and entrepreneurship in Pakistan, he added.
While talking about his Laptop Scheme, CM said, “Those who are blessed by Almighty Allah can afford a laptop or an iPad but millions of poor students who can barely pay their tuition fee have all the rights to study, innovate and become the future pillar of Pakistan. They need to be equipped with latest tools so that they only have to think about doing wonders for their country”.
Emphasizing on the future of Laptop Scheme, he further said that if he remains in power, he is all charged up to distribute half a million more laptops among the poor and deserving students of Punjab in the new financial year starting from July 2012.
He requested all the blogger and IT professionals sitting at the event to share their valuable recommendations for the accomplishment of IT goals that Government of Punjab has set.
Earlier, Jehan Ara, President of Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) highlighted couple of facts about IT industry of Pakistan. According to her, the sector is facing too many challenges in terms of infrastructure, human resource and the image of Pakistan across the world which discourages the foreign investors to risk their money here.
Among the speakers, there were, Chairman PITB, Dr. Umar Saif, Badar Khushnood, Country Consultant for Google Pakistan and Haris Nadeem, a blogger.
In the end, Shahbaz Sharif gave shields to the winners of Asia Pacific IT Award as well as Pakistan Blog Awards. The event was attended by large number of IT professionals, CEOs, Government Officials and young bloggers.
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Aslam.o.alikum…
Sir kindly jo new teachers science ki seats pay select huey hain unhein b es scheme ka hissa bnain kindly bohat tough competition k baad unki selection hui hai unhein b laptop dain ta k wo ja k un ghareeb bachn ko es saholat sy faida uthany ka moqa dy sakain kindly plz
Sir i have selected for the laptop scheme.. m doing bsc from science college multan.. i submitted the laptop form to my college authority.. but i cant eligible to register it from your site.. i got 60% above marks in fsc pre engineering..TEll me what i do for this.. i ask to my college authority but they didnt responsed to my request.. plz check this again.. m waiting for your reply admin..plz contact me on email..plz
Toseef, is your name included in the list prepared by the university?
Chief Minister of Punjab,
Pakistan.
Sir,
Assalam o Alakum,
It is here requested that i have passed the B.com examination. I have got 70% marks as student of Punjab Universty which is above minimum required to get the laptop as per your scheme. I have also got second position in district, Jhang. So please register me and give me a laptop so that i can gain benefit from latest technology.
I shall be very thankful to you for act of kind this.
Muhammad Toseef Ahmad,