KARACHI, Oct 9: The United Arab Emirates has provided eight turbines to the city government to help it overcome electricity shortage problem in the metropolis.

These turbines were presented to Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil by Mr Tanveer Zaidi, a representative of Abu Dhabi Water Authority during a meeting.

Paying tribute to Ameer of Abu Dhabi and UEA President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zaid for presenting the turbines to the city government, she said that with the installation of these turbines shortage of power would be met to a great extent.

Later, Tanveer Zaidi also called on Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad and City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal in this regard.

It may be mentioned here that an Italian company ANSALDO has consented to finance the work to upgrade these turbines of 240MW to 1000MW. After upgradation, the tribunes will also desalinate water.

Meanwhile, Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil said that the establishment of a technical university in Karachi was inevitable, PPI adds.

Talking to a delegation led by Sindh Board of Technical Education Chairman Prof (Dr) Masroor Ahmed Shaikh that called on her at her office, she said that besides normal education, imparting youth with the technical education was must so that the number of skilled people could be increased for a rapid progress of national economy.

She said that it was necessary that all schools of old KMC should start technical education programmes. She said that she would try her best to give degree-awarding institute status to the Sindh Board of Technical Education.

Ms Jalil asked that a meeting between representatives of the SBTE and office-bearers of standing committee for literacy of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry should be arranged so that matters related to technical education could be discussed.

The delegation told the naib nazim that as many as 206 technical education institutes were running in Karachi. Out of them, 70 were the state-run institutes. The city government was running 18 polytechnic institutes in Karachi, while the Sindh government was running one such institute. These polytechnic institutes offer three-year diploma programmes.

She was told that boys and girls vocational schools in the city offered various vocations at matriculation level, while commercial institutes offered two-year diploma in commerce.

The meeting was told that all polytechnic institutes in the city had a total capacity of 2,810 seats. Similarly, vocational centres and commercial institutes had 750 and 900 seats, respectively. It was further told that three technical centres were established in Sindh with the UNIDO’s support.