Engineering Post Report
As many as 24574 engineers throughout the country are seeking jobs, according to information downloaded from official website of Pakistan Engineering Council around mid-January 2021.
There are as many as 103 engineering universities and colleges, main campuses and sub-campuses, functional in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pukhtoonkhwah,Balochstan, Islamabad and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) is a statutory regulatory body established under PEC Act 1976 enacted by the Parliament. Its main functions include accreditation of engineering programmes offered by the universities/institutions , registration of engineers, constructors/operators, consulting engineers, continuing professional development of engineers to upgrade their skills and knowledge with emerging technology and assistance to Federal Government as a Think Tank on various national national development projects.
The PEC also regulates working of professional engineering bodies for professional development of engineers under the umbrella of the Council. PEC interacts with the Government at Federal and Provincial level as an advisory role in Commissions, Committees and professional bodies for technical input .
PEC is a sole representative body of the engineering community in the country which also acts as bridge between the government, industry and academia.
26th Annual General Meeting of OEC was held the NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi on December 25, 2020.
Quite interestingly, people of Pakistan are recognized as the fourth most intelligent in the world and 7th in the pool of scientists and engineers.
Pakistan still continues to produce 20000 engineers and IT professionals year on year. In 2019, Pakistan had 21 per cent increase in published papers– highest in the world.
All this is despite the bitter fact that Pakistan spends only 2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on education—one of the lowest in the world.
