Report by Engineering Post
The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) was continuing to guide and support the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in exploring and adopting new trends and requirements of international competitiveness and improving industrial productivity and quality according to the requirements of internationally recognized standards and guidelines.
According to the information available, under the project ” Certification Incentive Programme for SMEs under PQI Initiatives 2025″, funded under the Punjab Sect or Development Programme (PSDP) out of1471 applicant SMEs , more than 854 applicant firms had since been approved for the award of the incentive grant amounting to Rs 2888.000 million.
For capacity building and human resources development in the Science and Technology sector, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics programme was initiated for the capacity building of existing schools, the skill development of science teachers and the empowerment of young students to become productive scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs.
Development of processes, technologies and products and improvement in academia industry relations was also under implementation through Competitive Research Programme and Research Support Programme.
Pakistan Council of Science and Industry Research (PCSIR) was the premier public sector research and development organization of the country with a network of 17 research laboratories a/units including 06 training institutes located all over the country.
A PSDP project titled “Data Repository of Scientific Instruction” was also being executed and under the scope of the project, the available instrumental facilities of well-equipped research centres and universities from all over the country were being used to facilitate the researchers by paying a reasonable amount of analysis. More than 300 students/researchers from different universities and institutes had so far been provided access to analytical services.
