Our Correspondent
PESHAWAR
The University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar and the Planning and Development Department (P&DD), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa signed a Memorandum of Understanding here the other day.
The objective of MOU is to extend cooperation between the both institutions in the fields of IT, Information Sharing, monitoring and compliance level of different departments within the policy framework. The Secretary, Planning & Development Mr. Hamayun Khan and Pro-Vice Chancellor UET Protf. Dr. Qaiser Ali signed the MOU.
The signing ceremony also witnessed the award of a project funded by the Governance and Policy Project of the World Bank to UET Peshawar on “Integration and standardization of Management Information Systems for Effective Public Investment Management”.
Addressing on this occasion Secretary Planning & Development Mr. Hamayun Khan said that P&DD under the vision of the provincial government intended to introduce standardization of management information systems for effective public investment management to utilize the public money in more transparent, efficient and intelligent manner with utmost target of people’s prosperity and improvements in lives.
He added that (MOU) is considered as the first step in the process of developing an agreement that enables the P&DD to get benefit from the expertise of the Scholars of UET Peshawar.
The P&DD will also support fresh graduates to be engaged as paid internship in the projects in which UET would be engaged for technical support to the Planning and Development Department, he added.
Prof Dr. Qaisar Ali said, UET having a huge foreign qualified human resource is committed to work with Government and industry under the guidelines of HEC and PEC. Senior officials including Director General PCNA (Governance & Policy Project) Syed Zahir Ali Shah, Assistant Professor Dr Muhammad Adil, Coordinator GPP Mr. Naseer Ahmad and Governance Specialist Mr. Ashraf Khan were present on the occasion.
