July 31, 2023, Karachi: Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque along with Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui Convenor MQM Pakistan inaugurated Digital IT lab in Rashid Minhas Govt school for Boys and Girls at Nazimabad No 1, Karachi on Monday.
Addressing the occasion, the chief guest of the event Convenor MQM Pakistan Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui highlighted the importance of Karachi being the financial hub has a great significance and providing its youth 15 digital courses free of cost with the state of art facilities will go a long way towards the betterment of lives of people of Nazimabad and then country.
Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that today’s fast pace has changed everything in the world. Everything changed except the one who did not intend to change himself, the nations who do not intend to change themselves God does not promise to change them. In this unfortunate province of Sindh, quota system was imposed to block the way of education, you people are now growing up in this era where politics will not be able to block the way of education? He said that hundreds of the world’s biggest companies have made ability and skills the standard by eliminating the degree requirement, and we are still running after degrees, and we have completely ignored skills and abilities.
In his address Federal Minister for IT & Telecom Syed Amin Ul Haque said that this is the first time a Digital IT lab is formed at government school in Pakistan. Our aim is to make underprivileged children equally efficient and productive for the country, besides empowering them to live quality life in collaboration with Ignite.
“The event marked the official launch of the Digital IT lab, a program aimed at providing free IT education training in the form of content writing, freelancing and other 15 courses free of cost. The lab is equipped with all modern gadgets and facilities required for the market driven courses. This would prove a great help in grooming the underprivileged children of this school consisting of 300 plus students” he added.
He said, Digital IT lab will provide free of cost training with the help of top trainers assisting these 300 students to acquire skills in information technology helping them earn a living for themselves and for their families in this area.
Federal IT Minister Syed Amin Ul Haque aimed to empower the future generation with the goal of strengthening the national economy for prosperity and development of the country. He said that since his joining IT and ITeS exports have grown exponentially, and his focus has always been on ensuring transparency at all levels in his ministry. He also mentioned that under vision of Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui for the first time Mobile Manufacturing policy is made in Pakistan after which Samsung, Nokia have started manufacturing of mobile phones in Pakistan. This will in the long run will help in decreasing the price of smart phone in Pakistan which is quite expensive. Further, Google has started operations in Pakistan and has given 45,000 scholarships in 2023 which is a big achievement. This all will contribute towards GDP of Pakistan.
He further reiterated that IT skills would enable the younger generation to pursue their careers and create their own business opportunities contributing towards increasing GDP of the country. The Federal Minister mentioned that his vision has always been in long term growth that is the reason he has aimed to provide connectivity to rural and urban areas of Pakistan and have made huge investments in providing wireless connectivity across the country. Minister IT has envisioned of making availability of IT skills for every male and female student of the country so that they can start earning from their home.
Earlier, in his welcome address, CEO Ignite Mr. Asim Shehryar Hussain highlighted the efforts to boost Skills and performance of the National Incubations Center established by IGNITE. Mr. Abbas Jafri MPA also addressed the occasion. The ceremony y was attended by large numbers of Political Personalities, Teachers and male/female students.
