LAHORE, Feb 1: The Punjab government is planning to check private computer colleges cropped up all over the province.

This was stated by Governor Khalid Maqbool while talking to newsmen on the eighth All-Pakistan Software Competition SOFTEC-2003 here on Saturday.

Twenty-seven public and private sector schools, colleges, universities and IT institutions are participating in the competition. The exhibition includes software and hardware exhibits, ISP stalls and CD fair.

The governor said the government had encouraged the private sector to set up computer colleges in the province to promote computer education.

He said the mushroom growth of computer colleges which were producing “computer operators” was in the knowledge of the government but it did not interfere fearing that the private sector might stop investing in the IT sector.