Technology University to be established in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: The University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar and provincial government’s Department of Technical Education will jointly establish the Technology University at Mamoon Khatki village where B-Tech and M-Tech degree courses would be offered. This was decided at a meeting attended by UET Vice-Chancellor Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gilani, Minister for Technical Education Nawabzada Mehmoodzeb, Secretary for Commerce and Industries Department Jamil Ahmad and others. Presiding over the meeting, Imtiaz Gilani said that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani had expressed the desire to establish a Technology University here when he was performing the ground- breaking ceremony of UET Jalozai Campus a few months ago. The Higher Education Commission under its mega programme of establishing the nine world class universities of Engineering, Science and Technology in the country (USETPs) allowed the UET to establish the engineering university. The UET for the purpose acquired 150 acres of land from the provincial government at Mamoon Khatki, he added. The VC said that it was decided in the sub-committee meeting of USETP board to establish the Technology University in Peshawar. He appreciated the initiative taken by the minister by evincing interest and discussing the idea of working jointly with the UET for setting up the university. Mehmoodzeb said the country, particularly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was facing serious shortage of technical manpower as presently the country was producing only three per cent of required technicians of which the share of the province was only one per cent.