| China donates Rs 324 million for engineering, cutlery centres |
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| Wednesday,November 05,2008 Posted: 18:02 BJT(02 GMT) |
| From:Business Recorder Article type:Reproduced |
ISLAMABAD (November 05 2008): China has donated Rs 214 million for Light Engineering Service Centre and Rs 110 million for Cutlery & Small Industries Service Centre to install hi-tech machinery, provision of facilities of material testing, advanced welding and fabrication, hi-frequency heat treatment, machining of dies & modules, induction & vacuum hardening and plasma cutting machinery at Gujranwala and Wazirabad.
On the completion of machinery work at Tevta Light Engineering Service Centre, Gujranwala and Cutlery & Small Industry Service Centre, Wazirabad, an agreement was signed between Pakistan and China here recently. Chairman Tevta, Mohsin Syed and Economic & Commercial Counsellor of China Zhou Zhencheng signed the documents. First Secretary of Chinese Embassy in Pakistan Yan Jianming, Zonal Manager (North) Group Captain Muhammad Rashid (Retd), Manager Service Centres Akhtar Abbas Bharwana and Manager Public Relations Mustafa Kamal Pasha were also present.
The upgradation of these centres will enhance capacity building of existing workers and teachers. Tevta has planned to introduce demand driven and market oriented new vocational training courses very soon on the latest and high technology machines donated by China.
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