STAFF REPORT IBD: Stronger linkages between academia and business communities coupled with government support of Pakistan and Italy will lead to capacity building of Pakistan and sustainable management of solid waste in the country.
According to details, a Pakistani delegation, led by Federal Minister for Science and Technology Mir Changez Khan Jamali, has recently visited Italy and held talks with experts and business community of the two countries at University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
The University of Rome has showed its desire to enter into an agreement to work together with Pakistans Ministry of Science and Technology through PSF to undertake collaborative research studies on SWM, exchange of experts and students and business communities of the two nations.
Meanwhile, the University of Rome-Tor Vergata and Pakistan Science Foundation also worked out an understanding on solid waste generation, its causes, categorization, collection and management on scientific basis.
It was demonstrated that all the research being done in the area in Italy was client based and that the city governments were very much involved right from planning the research.