ISLAMABAD: Dr. Umar Saif, Caretaker Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunications, on Tuesday inaugurated Pakistan’s first e-Rozgar Center in collaboration with Excel Consulting Services.
The center boasts around one hundred workstations fully equipped with state-of-the-art facilities tailored for freelancers, with plans to expand to three hundred workstations in the future.
Speaking on the occasion, the minister said that with the establishment of the center, the project of setting up ten thousand e-Rozgar centers across the country has now started officially.
"We Are Now in Layyah"
Last week we conducted orientation of our first batch for e-Rozgaar center in BZU Layyah Campus!
The e-Rozgar team welcomed the first batch and encouraged them to perform great!
Hoping great things from Layyah! #eRozgaar #SouthPunjab #PITB #Freelancing pic.twitter.com/BRBMeHzUs9
— e-Rozgaar Program (@erozgaar) August 29, 2019
He said the government had also fulfilled another promise made to the people, where a notable number from the existing 1.5 million and upcoming new freelancers can work independently at very low rates.
Dr. Saif said that the best facilities, including UPS, training centers, high-speed internet, individual cabins, meeting rooms, and separate office rooms for start-ups, had been provided to freelancers.
He said that with the completion of the great project, IT exports would soon be increased by ten billion dollars annually, and under public-private partnership, these centers would also be able to considerably increase the capacity and income of freelancers.
The minister further said that the Pakistan Software Export Board would be responsible for providing freelancers and required technical support for these centers.
He said that, as promised, e-Rozgar centers in other cities were also nearing completion.
Pakistan Technology Destination Internationally
The government had taken all the required steps for the digital ecosystem in the country, and it had also used all available forums to declare Pakistan as a “Technology Destination” globally, he said.
The minister added that difficult decisions related to the IT and Telecom sector had been taken in the short period of the caretaker government.
