PTA awards gold medals to winners of best research projects
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has awarded gold medals with cash prizes to the students oftwo best research projects in IT & Telecom for the year 2010.Chairman PTA Dr. Muhammed...
July 08, 2011
Chairman PTA Dr. Muhammed Yaseen presented gold medals tothe winners of the competition during a ceremony held at PTAHeadquarters here on Friday, a press release issued said.
Member (Technical) Dr. Khawar Siddique Khokhar and MemberFinance (acting), Shabbir Ahmed were also present on the occasion.The event was attended by senior officers of the Authority,faculty members of the universities and parents of the awardees. The gold medals were awarded on the basis of a competitionamong accredited national universities held by PTA for the bestresearch projects on IT & Telecom.
Total 10 research projects were received from differentuniversities which were later on scrutinized and evaluated by aPTA committee through a transparent procedure of marking.
On the basis of highest obtained marks two research projects of Faran Mahmood (Team Lead) from institute of Space Technology Islamabad (IST ISB) and Absar-ul-Hasan Shah (Team Lead) from national University of Science and Technology Rawalpindi (NUST)were selected for the award of Rs. 50,000 each and gold medals.
Moreover team members of the winning projects Bilal Akhtar, Areeb Riaz, Syed Muhammad Athar Ali, and Ali Raza Anjum were also awarded gold medals and cash prizes.
Addressing the ceremony, Chairman PTA said that as reflected from the telecom indicators, growth in the telecom sector has been immense in recent past years.
Similarly education sector has also shown tremendous growth in terms of adding an increased number of educational and professional institutions, development of faculty and students' enrollments whereas growth in research on IT & telecom in Pakistan has not been proportionate.
He said that PTA has always been an academia friendly organization and this initiative is a testimony of the utmost respect and regard we hold for academia in our hearts.
