GUJRANWALA, March 17: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has underlined the need to promote engineering technology and computer science education in the province. The governor said that three new engineering universities were being established in Lahore, Sialkot and Multan while the government was spending maximum sum for the promotion of education.

The governor was speaking at an inauguration ceremony of students library at Rachna Engineering Technology College at Jora in Wazirabad on Friday.

He said the construction work of an academic block had been started which would be completed by August at a cost of Rs43 million.

He assured that more agricultural land would be acquired for the extension of all faculties besides providing better facilities to students.

The Government Institute of Technology, he said, would be shifted to the Agricultural Machinery Training Centre. He also inaugurated the college mosque and assured students that their demand regarding the construction of roads leading to college would be seriously considered.

Meanwhile, the governor also visited the industrial exhibition at Gulshan Iqbal Park. He took a round of various stalls and praised the standard of products. He said products displayed were promoting country’s image at the international level.

Earlier, local chamber of commerce and industry president Akhlaq Ahmad Butt and other office bearers warmly welcomed the governor in the exhibition and apprised him of problems faced by industrialists and the business community.

The governor pointed out that the government was planning to introduce a new development package for the uplift of this area.

Governor Khalid Maqbool also inaugurated a new ward at the Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital on the GT Road and a nuclear medical centre at Nandipur.