Moot on emerging trends in information, engineering technologies at Sindh University

A two-day International Conference on “Emerging Trends in Information and Engineering Technologies” organised by Dr. Abdul Hussain Shah Bukhari (AHSB) Post Graduate Center of Information and Communication Technology began at Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Sindh Jamhsoro amid enormous participation of national and global scholars and researchers of world repute on Thursday.

The inaugural ceremony of the conference was presided over by the Vice-Chancellor Professor (Meritorious) Dr Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro, while the special assistant to the Chief Minister Sindh on Information, Science and Technology and Chairman Standing Committee on Education Tanzila Umi Habiba graced the occasion with his participation as the guest of honor.

In his presidential address, SU Vice-Chancellor said that the recommendations presented at the International Conference would be forwarded to the federal and provincial governments aiming at assisting the concerned quarters in policy making on information and engineering technologies.

Referring to the amenities being provided to the students enrolled on the campus, he stated that no other university in Sindh had so many hostels or transport facilities for students which were being provided by the University of Sindh.

He said that as many as 3,000 male and 2,000 female students were staying in concerned boys’ and girls’ dormitories, while 200 point buses were being plied regularly on specific routes, which he termed was a huge financial liability.

“No any other university in Sindh undergoes such a tremendous financial burden as that of SU goes through despite tight pecuniary constraints”, he said.

He went on saying that Sindh University possessed about 1800 pensioners and 25% of the total annual budget of the varsity was being spent on payments of pension every year.

Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Information, Science & Technology Tanzila Umi Habiba said that Dr. A.H.S Bukhari Postgraduate Centre had actually organized the international conference on emerging trends in information and engineering technologies at the right time when the government of Sindh was seriously planning to establish an ICT Board after setting up of the same in other three provinces.

Dean Faculty of Engineering and Technology Prof. Dr. Khalil-ur-Rehman Khoumbati briefed the guest on the various stages of up-gradation of IT department from its inception in 1979 to 2008 and said that the conference had been organised in a hybrid mode so that the scholars might partake on their convenience either online or on-site and present their research papers on the theme.

Earlier, in his welcome address, the conference chairman Prof. Dr. Lachhman Das Dhomeja said that Dr. Abdul Hussain Shah Bukhari Post Graduate Center of the University of Sindh was producing M.Phil in four disciplines and M.Phil as well as PhD in IT.

He demanded the Chief Minister’s special assistant Tanzila Umi Habiba of giving a grant for the further growth of the centre.