SWABI: The SkyElectric, a US-based company, has successfully executed a one megawatt solar power project at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology here.

Ashar Aziz, the executive chairman of the company, inaugurated the project during a special ceremony on Wednesday.

Osman Saifullah Khan, member of the GIKI Board of Governors, Shakil Durrani, executive director of Society for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Pakistan (Soprest), the GIKI rector and other officials also attended the event.

Mr Aziz met the Soprest executive director, GIKI rector and deans of various faculties, and discussed with them collaboration between the SkyElectric and the institute in energy- related fields, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, deep and machine learning, cyber security and data analytics.

They decided that both organisations would share their mutual experiences and promote research and innovation with each other.

Mr Ashar shared his experience about the new startups in the fields of computing, cyber security, energy, and other technological fields in the US.

He asked students to complete education and continue learning all through their lives to catch up with rapid technological changes and developments.

He said his company was ready to organise a “boot camp” at the GIKI while exploring the academia-industrial collaboration in view of rich programmes of GIK Institute and well-equipped labs in the fields of computing, engineering technologies, material and minerals, advanced management and electrical engineering.

GIKI rector Prof Fazal A Khalid said work on solarisation began a year ago and Sky Electric had completed the project in record time of less than three months.

“Now, low-cost electricity will be provided to the campus to reduce energy bills and disruption in power supply, which is impacting academic activities,” he said.

INJURED: Two children were run over and injured by a loader rickshaw on the Swabi-Jehangira Road here on Wednesday.

The incident occurred as the two minor residents of Anbar village, including Ayesha Khan, 10, and Anas Khan, 6, were crossing the road.

The people shifted the injured to the Bacha Khan Teaching Hospital, Shahmansoor.

The Zaida police registered an FIR against the loader’s driver.

Meanwhile, an elderly man was injured as a speeding rickshaw knocked him down on a road here.

The injured was identified as Amanullah Khan, a 60-year-old resident of Shewa village. He was crossing the road when the incident occurred.

Published in Dawn, November 16th, 2023