Lahore will achieve a prominent place in International IT Industry :Dr. Umar Saif

Lahore: Chairman Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) Dr. Umar Saif has said that Lahore will achieve a prominent place in International IT Industry in the next few years. He said that plan 9 established in PITB is providing opportunity to youth having unique projects to introduce their business at global level. PITB provides all facilities including offices, capital and consultation to the youth having new ideas. Under plan 9, 44 successful companies of youth have come into market and are doing business of million dollars at international level.

He expressed these views while talking to journalists at Arfa Software Technology Park, here today. Senior officials of PITB were also present on the occasion.

Dr. Umar Saif said that Software industry of Pakistan exports software worth two billion dollars while India does the business of one hundred billion dollars. He said that about 2.5 lakh people of Pakistan are associated with IT Industry while there are numerous opportunities of progress in this sector. He said that besides employment, youth are also being provided a platform for doing their own business which is yielding excellent results.

Replying to the questions of journalists, Chairman PITB informed that first facilitation center will be inaugurated in second week of November in Rawalpindi and initially 12 centers will be set up where different services would be provided to the citizens under one roof. He said that Punjab government is introducing Right to Service Act under which the citizens will be provided required information and documents in shortest possible time. Later, the journalists visited different projects of PITB including surveillance center of metro bus at Arfa Software Technology Park.