PITB and S&IT Department Sign Agreement to Promote Freelancing Training in Balochistan
In a ceremony held at Arfa Software Technology Park on May 5, 2021, an agreement was signed between the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and Science and IT (S&IT) Department of Balochistan to set up ‘DIGIBIZZ Freelancing & Entrepreneurship Program’ in Balochistan.
The agreement was signed by PITB DG e-Governance Sajid Latif and DG S&IT Irfan Nawaz Memon. Officials from both organizations attended this ceremony including Director IT Trainings S&IT Jawad Ahmad, Senior Program Manager PITB Ahmad Islam, and the freelancing wing of PITB.
A project of S&IT to train the youth of Balochistan in Freelancing, the initiative will be executed in collaboration with PITB. The project will commence with the provision of freelancing training to over 2000 students across the province.
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April 16, 2021
LAHORE: Distribution of bardana and procurement of wheat has been started at wheat procurement centres across Punjab and so far more than 400,000 bags of bardana have been distributed while staff of Food Department and local administration is alert.
Punjab Senior Food Minister Abdul Aleem Khan was informed in the department briefing that the Food Department had made all the arrangements in this regard. Moreover, the Punjab government has also taken farmer-friendly measures to provide bardana to the farmers through online registration and this facility has been provided to all the farmers of Punjab. It was informed that farmers had been exempted from all restrictions, including land owners documents like fard for obtaining bardana and they can get it as per their requirement without any hindrance.
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LAHORE: Punjab Irrigation Department will launch e-Tawan initiative after successfully introducing e-Abiana.
Secretary Irrigation Punjab Capt (retd) Saif Anjum had a meeting with Chairman Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) Azfar Manzoor to discuss and review e-Abiana progress. The developments on the upcoming e-Tawan initiative as part of e-Abiana were also discussed.
Automation and upgradation of Irrigation Departmentâs library in line with PITBâs e-Library initiative was also deliberated. Both departments will be signing an agreement in this regard to make all the relevant literature readily available to departmentsâ employees. PITB DG-IT Operations Faisal Yousaf, DG e-Governance Sajid Latif, Director Development & Procurement Ata-ur-Rehman and Director IT M Kashif Farooq were also present at the meeting.