PM’s Task Force on IT & Telecom notified

on 28/11/2018

Prime Minister’s Task Force on IT & Telecom has been notified after the federal cabinet approved it in a meeting in November this year.

The Task Force is aimed at advise policy changes and develop strategic plans to strengthen the technology ecosystem of Pakistan, said a report.

The Task Force is headed by Federal Minister IT & Telecom Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui who will be its Chairman.

Secretary, Ministry of IT & Telecom, Secretary, Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, Former Minister of Science & Technology and Former Chairman of Higher Education Commission, Engr. Jawad Salim Qureshi, Chairman Pakistan Engineering Council,

Syed Raza Ali Shah, Member IT at Ministry of IT & Telecom, Mudassir Hussain, Member Telecom at Ministry of IT & Telecom, Vice Admiral (R) Syed Arifullah Hussaini, CEO Hussaini Concepts & Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Syed Ahmed, Chairman P@SHA and CEO DPL, Dr. Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science LUMS, Shahid Mustafa, CEO Telenor Microfinance Bank,

Nadeem Mustafa, Former Country Manager Microsoft, Jehan Ara, Program Director The Nest I/O, Zohair Khaliq, Co-Founder & Partner Teamup – National Incubation Center and Former CEO Mobilink, Pervez Iftikhar, CEO ICT Forum Pakistan and Former CEO Universal Services Fund, Abdul Aziz Khan, Chairman Appollo Telecom and Former CEO Ufone and Dr. Sarosh Hashmat Lodi, Vice Chancellor NED University of Engineering & Technology are the members.

Half of 1800 CCTV cameras go out of order!

on 28/11/2018

If government claims and complaints are to be believed, Islamabad’s Safe City Project is in shambles. As many as 600 to 900 CCTV cameras out of a total installed 1,800 cameras are either out of order or their grabbing quality is poor.

While the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is looking into verifying complaints that 600 CCTV cameras of the capital are not functional, the federal information minister claimed that 900 CCTV cameras are out of order and the rest cannot read vehicle registration plates or people`s faces.

The issues attracted attention after the abduction of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tahir Dawar from the capital.

Now, Director General, NAB Rawalpindi has been directed to submit details of expenditures incurred on the project and details of the start of the project and reasons of its dysfunctional, says a NAB press release. Chairman NAB has also ordered to investigate the reasons for the project failure and determine who was responsible.

The Rs14 billion Safe City Project was launched in Islamabad under the PPP in 2008 and continued until the tenure of the last PML-N government. In addition to installing CCTV cameras, three truck mounted scanners were also imported from China and installed at points of entry into Islamabad.

A total of 1,840 cameras were installed all over the capital and the project was inaugurated in 2016. Since then, many cameras have begun developing faults and more than 600 are not working properly.

Asia Geomatics launches Satlab Geosolutions in Pakistan

on 28/11/2018

Asia Geomatics, a sister company of Sunder Trading Company one of the leading surveying instrument trading company in Pakistan more than 38 years and has launched Satlab Brand have also full range of Survey Instruments which is made in Sweden.

Sunder Trading Company was founded by its chairman Shaukat Ali Nadeem having over 38-year professional experience in surveying instruments on his credit. Now he is dealing in yet one more leading brand.

Satlab Brand is a Global Satellite Positioning Solutions Company having strategically located offices around the world.

Asia Geomatics is the authorized distributor of Satlab Brand Survey interments in Pakistan and has an in-house workshop facility which provides repair and calibration services as well as address technical issues relating to Satlab Geosolutions.

Moreover, Asia Geomatics also offers free training services for Total Station & GPS.

Satlab Brand Survey instruments, as the company claims are trusted by professionals worldwide due to their high accuracy and precision collection of Survey data.

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BRT Peshawar pass through ECNEC lens

on 28/11/2018

Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project has been referred to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) for the approval.

The project costing Rs66.4 billion has already been revised and approved by the Provincial Development Working Party and the Central Development Working Party (CDWP).

The revised plan of the project was sent to ECNEC on the directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

The multi-billion-rupee BRT project is not only a bus corridor but also a grand plan for other roads in the city. There are also designs to construct drainage ways, a cycle track and moving utility service lines along the three-kilometre long underpasses and the 13km long elevated road, says a press release.

The opposition has been criticizing the Pakistan Tehreelei-Insaf governments both at the Centre and in KP for doubling the estimated cost of the BRT project from Rs30 billion to Rs60bn.

However, the fact is that the original cost of the project was Rs57bn and the revisions amount to only Rs9bn. The original cost of the project was Rs57bn, but the CDWP made a 15 percent cut and removed contingency expenditure a provision created in all mega projects reducing its cost to Rs49bn

‘Sindh engineers be given technical allowance’

on 28/11/2018

Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) has written to the Sindh Government that the engineers of Sindh working in various public sector departments be given technical allowance.

A letter, written by Chairman PEC Jawed Salim Qureshi to Engr. Syed Murad Ali Shah, the Chief Minister of Sindh said that “recently KPK government has approved a technical allowance @ 1.5 times of the initial basic pay of the engineers vide Finance Department KPK Notification # FD(SP SR-III) 8-7/2018-19 dated 19th October 2018 to eliminate the financial disparity.”

The PEC chairman has requested Mr. Shah that Sindh government should also allow technical allowance to all Engineering Cadres of Sindh i-e Irrigation, C&W, Housing, Development, and Sanitation Authorities as admissible in KPK. He said the step would be in the best interest of engineers and uplifting of Sindh.

The engineers are the backbone of the country which ultimately participates in the growth of the country. They work day and night to achieve the goal. Engineering organizations working under administrative control of the government of Sindh are not giving technical allowance to the engineers which is totally an injustice as compare to the engineers of KPK and federal government organizations.