Pakistan to establish its first laptop assembly plant

[aks18]

ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan will have its first ever laptop assembling plant soon which would strengthen the country’s indigenous capacity in laptop manufacturing and assembling, and also create job opportunities for skilled youth.
The decision was taken during the third meeting for the implementation of the Prime Minister Youth Laptop Scheme held here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairperson, Dr Javaid R Leghari.
The assembling plant will also help facilitate the distribution of laptops to deserving students.
50% of the required labour will be provided by the Prime Minister’s Skill Development Training Programme.
The meeting also decided to hold an international conference of potential bidders for establishing the plant, and to form a steering committee comprising all the stakeholders for effective implementation of the laptop scheme.
A Project Implementation Unit will also be established at HEC to initiate speedy implementation of the scheme without any delay.
The meeting discussed the modalities of implementing the laptop scheme recently announced by the government in the annual budget to acknowledge the outstanding performance of the bright students.
Chairman HEC, Dr Javaid Leghari said the HEC was tasked to design the implementation strategy and form eligibility criteria in a transparent manner to promote outreach of youth to information and communication technology.
Under this scheme, laptops would be given to students acquiring higher education at federal universities.
He assured the meeting that the HEC will implement the laptop scheme in a well defined, merit-based and transparent manner.
Director General Information Technology, HEC Anwar Amjad gave a presentation elaborating the design and mechanism of implementing the laptop scheme.
Those who attended the meeting included representatives from the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Ministry of Science and Technology, HEC and Punjab Information and Technology Board.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 7th, 2013.


Pakistan to establish its first laptop assembly plant – The Express Tribune

After Wasting Billions of Rupees in Importing laptops , Finally NOORA's Taking a Good Step to Make A Assembly Plant of these laptops hope so this step take us to a Manufacturing of components of laptop too INSHA ALLAH

 

[mr42O]

lol noora policy !!!!

 

[Leader]

one factory and its going to create job opportunity for skilled youth, like how many millions are they going to put into this assembly plant? and which type of skilled labours do they mean?

plus is it going to be "chu cha" laptop assembling plant or HP or Dell assembly plant?

p.s. just a factory, get over it

 

[aks18]

one factory and its going to create job opportunity for skilled youth, like how many millions are they going to put into this assembly plant? and which type of skilled labours do they mean?

plus is it going to be "chu cha" laptop assembling plant or HP or Dell assembly plant?

p.s. just a factory, get over it

yar we should appreciate such steps good for IT sector ,, after wasting billions of rupees on importing he is now thinking to bring some assembling plant here one day similarly we will also manufacture such machines here in pakistan

 

[Leader]

yar we should appreciate such steps good for IT sector ,, after wasting billions of rupees on importing he is now thinking to bring some assembling plant here one day similarly we will also manufacture such machines here in pakistan

Im not saying its wrong or something, but this reaction oh my god, we did it, yayy... over an assembly plant of some chu cha laptops, seriously??,

know who recently invested in China... !



p.s. btw shebaz sharif also ordered battery wali bikes, so they are coming too, very soon

 

[aks18]

Im not saying its wrong or something, but this reaction oh my god, we did it, yayy... over an assembly plant of some chu cha laptops, seriously??,

know who recently invested in China... !



p.s. btw shebaz sharif also ordered battery wali bikes, so they are coming too, very soon

you know i was thinking this guy will stop such cheap stunts but he is Shahbaz with oonchi parwaz he will never realize the ground realities and problems he will remain in skies

 

[Leader]

you know i was thinking this guy will stop such cheap stunts but he is Shahbaz with oonchi parwaz he will never realize the ground realities and problems he will remain in skies

by default hi yeh family asi hai...vision hi nalla hai inka !

 

[darkinsky]

he loves laptops because he can save and play his favorite mujras?

 

[Gentelman]

saaray kakkay PMLN ko vote de kay ab shuru hain……
Shahbaz onchi parwaz
A typical Pakistani Behaviour……

 

[Edevelop]

ISLAMABAD: Board of Investment (BoI) would organise international investors conference for establishment of country s’ first ever laptop assembling and manufacturing plant in the country.

It was agreed during a meeting between Zubair Umar Chairman BoI and Dr Javaid Laghari Chairperson Higher Education Commission (HEC).

The plant would also be used for manufacturing of other telecom items including mobiles.

During the meeting, it was also agreed representatives of provincial governments along would also be invited to this conference. The chairman HEC apprised him about various HEC programmes and initiatives and about the strategy for implementation of Prime Minister’s Scheme for Provision of Laptop.

He informed leading information technology companies have established laptop assembling plants in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Rwanda and Kenya etc. The chairman BoI appreciated the contribution of HEC for socio-economic development of country and assured his cooperation for effective implementation of laptop scheme.

An important meeting was also held to review and finalisation of concept, design implementation of Prime Minister’s Scheme for Provision of Laptop.

This third consecutive meeting was presided over Dr Laghari and was attended by senior officials of federal ministries, HEC and universities while Farhan Aziz Khawaja secretary higher education Punjab participated along with senior officials of Punjab government through video conferencing.

The meeting reviewed proposed eligibility criteria, implementation strategy, funding and exploring potential investment opportunities through public private partnership for procurement and establishment of country s’ first ever laptop assembling plant.

The participants of the meeting supported the idea of establishment laptop assembling plant in Pakistan.

They were of the view this step would be greatly helpful in strengthening indigenous capacity in laptop manufacturing and assembling and will create job opportunities for skilled youth and 50 percent of the required labour would be provided by the Prime Minister’s Skill Development Training Programme.

The meeting decided to hold an international conference of potential bidders for procurement of laptop and to form a steering committee comprising all the stakeholders for effective implementation of the laptop scheme.

A Project Implementation Unit will also be established at HEC to initiate speedy implementation of the scheme without any delay.

Dr Laghari appreciated the initiative by the federal government and assured HEC would implement Prime Minister’s Scheme for Provision of Laptop in a well-defined, merit-basedand transparent manner to promote outreach of youth to information and communication technology.

Director General Information Technology HEC Anwar Amjad gave a detailed presentation elaborating the design and mechanism of implementing the laptop scheme. appInt’l investors’ conference soon for laptop assembling plant

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[Imran Khan]

these PTI PMLN guys will never every happy from each other . its good step for hell sake . do you guys ever seen something good in pmln?

 

[karan21]

Now again, when Pakistanis cry about their leadership being vision less and impaired they are absolutely right. This step shows their infancy in policy making.

Instead of building this plant just for assembling laptops for a stupid useless scheme, they should have created an entire economic policy which could be export driven and also inviting investments for foreign and Pakistani players. Instead of using tax money for importing memory, processors etc etc from Taiwan and china and then assembling in Pakistan to make it a patriotic product, they should have created an ecosystem and sown the seeds of Pakistan's own electronics industry.

When we look at East Asia, Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea all have big electronics industry with their own semiconductor foundaries while in South Asia, we are still stuck in Analog times. Now you guys know why???

 

[A1Kaid]

Better to have a manufacturing plant so that Pakistan's own computer and laptop industry can begin to develop. Although does anyone know what company this laptop assembly plant is for?

 

[aks18]

Now again, when Pakistanis cry about their leadership being vision less and impaired they are absolutely right. This step shows their infancy in policy making.

Instead of building this plant just for assembling laptops for a stupid useless scheme, they should have created an entire economic policy which could be export driven and also inviting investments for foreign and Pakistani players. Instead of using tax money for importing memory, processors etc etc from Taiwan and china and then assembling in Pakistan to make it a patriotic product, they should have created an ecosystem and sown the seeds of Pakistan's own electronics industry.

When we look at East Asia, Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea all have big electronics industry with their own semiconductor foundaries while in South Asia, we are still stuck in Analog times. Now you guys know why???

So you guys simply jumped direct to Manufacturing of processors and memory ?