A look at under-implementation Power Projects
Engineering Post Report Re-gasified Liquefied Natural Gas (RLNG) based Punjab Thermal Power (Pvt) Limited is located near Trimmu Barrage in district Jhang. It is the largest RLNG-based power generation facility of 1363 MW which is being developed by the Punjab Government at the cost of US $ 708 million, arranged from its own resources, and […]
Dhabeji SEZ to create about 200,000 jobs
Engineering Post Report Groundbreaking ceremony of Dhabeji Special Economic Zone under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework in Thatta, Sindh has recently been performed . Dhabeji SEZ is located at an ideal location of being close to the ports of Karachi and Port Qasim and likely to create about two lakhs direct and indirect employment opportunities on its […]
Policies and strategies for strengthening Exports
Engineering Post Report The federal government was in the process of planning effective policy measures in order to strengthen the external sector of the economy and bolstering exports, curbing unnecessary imports, enhancing home remittances by Overseas Pakistanis and inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Trade Policy Framework 2022-25 outlines the vision, objectives, targets and interventions for enhancement of […]
Promoting and developing Information Technology under CPEC
Engineering Post Report Information Technology is one of the fastest growing sectors of Pakistan’s economy. It has assumed a central enabling role in the emerging dynamics of a knowledge society and knowledge economy. In order to enhance cooperation under the banner of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in the field of Information Technology, a Joint Working Group Information […]
Planning Commission conducts field monitoring of 170 development projects
Engineering Post Report The Planning Commission of the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives has conducted field monitoring of 170 projects listed in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2022-23 of various sectors against the annual target of 150 to review and track physical progress of the schemes on ground. According to the sources concerned, the […]
Work Force Statistics
Engineering Post Report Unemployment rate of the labour force in the country in 2006-07 was 6.2 percent per annum which decreased to 5.5 percent in 2009=10, showed little upward trend in 2014-15 when it increased to 5.9 percent and further went up a little to 6.3 percent in 2019-20, according to some interests facts and figures available […]
Pakistan and China sign addendum for ML-1 Project
An addendum was signed to the CPEC’s framework agreement for the Main Line-1 (ML-1) project during the recent visit of PM Anwar ul Haq Kakar to China. As part of the addendum the project will now be executed with a rationalised cost of $6.678 billion instead of the earlier one of $9.85bn. After the signing […]
Unveiling our Latest Product Line: Clean Rooms!
By Mushfiq Rahman, Director, Pakistan Insulation (Pvt) Ltd In this article, I want to introduce Pakistan Insulations (Private) Limited’s newest product line: clean rooms. For those who do not know, a clean room is an engineered space, specifically one that has a very low concentration of particles in the air, ranging from pollutants, microbes as […]
Engineering Students’ Final Year Projects – Untapped national resource
By Engr. Khalid Pervez, CEO Each final year student must work on a ‘Final Year Project’ – or FYP as coined recently, which’s a group assignment allotted to 4 or 5 students. The FYP conducted under the supervision of a faculty member or external resource, is essentially an engineering application assignment, often involving innovation, indigenous […]