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LAHORE, Oct 18: A group of Canada-based Pakistani investors is developing a 20-acre technology park on Raiwind Road, about two kilometres from Thokar Niaz Beg, at a cost of Rs3 billion.
The park will house an institute of science and technology and provide space for thousands of software developers.
“The park will have two million square feet of covered area to house about 20,000 software developers,” an official of North Star Technology, the firm responsible for the construction of the park said.
CHILDREN’S LIBRARY: A museum of science, technology and natural history will be added to the Children Library Complex, Shahrah Aiwan-i-Tijarat.
“Two of the complex’s vacant halls are being converted into the museum with the collaboration and funding of the Pakistan Science Foundation,” playwright and library director Amjad Islam Amjad told APP on Thursday.
The work on the project, worth over Rs1 million, will be completed in January next.
The science and technology section will have models and installations about the scientific concepts taught to senior school students.
Mr Amjad said that more than 25,000 children were the members of the library. On the average, around 500 children of 4 to 14 years visit the library daily.
Skill training in eight courses has also been started at the complex for women interested in needlework or craft, he said.
FISH PONDS’: A new technology to control water seepage of fish ponds has been introduced by the Punjab Fisheries Department in collaboration with the private sector.
Punjab Fisheries Director-General Dr Muhammad Ayub inaugurated the newly-developed geo-membrane technology at the Fisheries Research and Training Institute, Manawan, on Thursday. Fisheries hatchery director Chaudhry Atta was also present, says a handout.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Ayub said that this technology would be helpful in promoting the fish farming culture in desert areas.
He said that the fisheries department had already introduced a indigenously developed fish food unit.
Fisheries Director Dr Muhammad Naeem said that water seepage in fish farms has come out as a major hindrance in the fisheries development. This problem can easily be overcome with the use of geo-membrane technology.
