KATI urges a strong liaison between industry, academia

KARACHI: President of Korangi Association of Trade & Industry (KATI) Saleem-uz-Zaman has urged a strong liaison between industry, research and technical training entities. He was addressing a joint awareness session for the development of constructive linkage between industry and educational institution, says a Press release.
On this occasion Head of KATI’ standing committee on Linkage with academia institute & Government related Department Ehtishamuddin, Chairman & CEO KITE Zubair Chhaya, Vice President Nighat Awan, Maheen Salman, DG Noriic NVTECH AVM Rana Anees, Chairman Sindh Board of Technical Education, Dr Masroor Sheikh, President IOBM Talib Syyed Karim, CEO Aman Tech Ali Zafar , DG PCSIR Dr Shahnaz Parveen, Editor Dunya Forum Mustafa Habib Siddiqui and others also addressed the occasion.
Saleem-uz-Zaman said that under the vision of our patron-in-Chief SM Muneer we always promote the educational and research activates especially in the field of technical advancement. He said that only research can provide us cost effective solutions for the industry to fight back our biggest challenge of higher costs of production.
He said that industrialization needs technical advancement and the required trained human resource for the industry. “That is a reason we bring almost all the prominent institutes and government departments today here to address this need of time as a stack holder” he added. Zubair Chhaya said that curriculum of technical institutes should be revamped in accordance to rapidly changing technologies and requirement of industry, a liaison between these institutes and industrialist should be in place.
Ehteshamuddin was of view that on one hand we see a growing problem of unemployment in the country but on other hand industry’s always in the search of people for their required skill set, it shows that there is a huge gap of understanding and cooperation between the industry and the educational institutions in our country. He mentioned that today’s session was aimed to bridge this gap.
Chairman Sindh Board of Technical Education Dr Masroor Sheikh lauded effort of KATI for bringing together the academia and the industry under the one roof. Dr Talib Karim also pointed out the areas of cooperation between industry and academia. On this occasion, Dr. Shahnaz Parveen also gave a multimedia presentation regarding PCSIR.