Federal Minister for Science & Technology, Mr. Rana Tanveer
Hussain held today a performance review meeting of Pakistan Science Foundation
(PSF).Chairman, Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) Professor Dr. Muhammad Ashraf
briefed the chair regarding numerous initiatives
and projects being taken by PSF.
The chair lamented that a tremendous job has been done by
different attached departments of Ministry of Science & Technology but
these are not being properly translated into socio-economic development of the
country in a befitting manner, which is the ultimate goal behind every
scientific endeavor.
During the course of the meeting, the chair was briefed about
numerous research based applied projects carried out under the umbrella of PSF.
The chair while appreciating the efforts of PSF, instructed Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF)
that the Chambers
of Commerce and Industrial Sector should be jointly involved in the research
based scientific projects.
The chair instructed Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) to follow up Science projects’ initiatives taken by
private individuals and to further stimulate industrial community to take
patronage of these projects. The chair appreciated the Research and Development
(R&D) based linkages with China, Turkey and other Countries and further
directed the Chairman, Pakistan Science Foundation to vigorously pursue such
linkages with the developed countries like Germany, South Korea and others to
let Pakistan take benefit from their research based products.
Federal Minister for Science & Technology, Mr. Rana Tanveer
Hussain, expressed that several new caravan units should be expanded in far off areas of
the country including FATA and GB so that the masses in these regions may
contribute their rightful share towards promotion of science in Pakistan.
The chair took notice of the dysfunctional unit of Ministry of
Science & Technology i.e, STEDEC whose primary mandate is to commercialize
the research based products. The chair instructed to develop a Business Model
to effectuate socio-economic development through indigenous technologies.