STAFF REPORT IBD: The establishment of 500 telecenters is a landmark project on part of present regime to provide E-services to people of rural areas. Besides providing Broadband Internet and other IT services, these centres would also ensure online SIM card and NADRA.


Minister of State for Information Technology, Anusha Rehman, has taken keen interest in the project and enhanced number of telecentres to 500 with the objective to facilitate rural population of the country including FATA and AJK.


The National lCT Research and Development Awards-2013 has recently been lunched to acknowledge efforts of Pakistani organizations, researchers, academicians, professionals and engineers in the area of ICTs with a view to encouraging development of an ICT-focused RandD culture in Pakistan.


During the period, an agreement has been concluded between the PTCL and Ministry of IT for Promotional Data Hosting Center Facility for the introduction of e-govt in the country, initially for 15 months, free of cost.


Arrangements for the 3G Auction are under way and the auction will be finalized before the end of the current financial year.


In order to ensure that all traffic terminating in Pakistan is on legal networks, Ministry of IT vigorously undertook the task of checking the grey traffic to stop all financial loss caused to the public exchequer.

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