ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The government would establish four new sub-campuses of National Textile University (NTU), one in each province in order to produce skilled human resource for the development of the sector in the Country.
Talking to the state-run news agency in Islamabad on Tuesday, a top official of Ministry of Textile Industry said that these sub-campuses will be established in cotton growing areas of the provinces including Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
The official said that these sub-campuses will be established in Gujranwala, Sukkhar, Dara Ismail Khan and Quetta.
The NTU has already started work on the establishment of NTU sub-campus Karachi and it would be operational by this year as regular classes for different degree programmes would also be started soon, he added.
He informed that the local government of Dara Ismail Khan has completed the land accusation process for the construction of the university, where as the chief secretaries of other provinces were directed to expedite the land accusation process to establish the universities in their respective regions.
He said that the main aim of establishment of these sub-campuses was to exploit the potential of actual cotton crop production by promoting the crop growing areas of the Country.
The other objective of the initiatives was to increase the cotton crop value addition by providing the industrial sector a professional and skilled labor force to enhance the textile exports from the Country, he added.
The official said that these campuses will start different programmes for textile designing and allied sciences including designing, processing and color chemistry.
The universities would also start degree level programmes for fiber technology and other technological skill development to provide the highly qualified and trained work force for the domestic textile sector in the Country, he added.
He said that the establishment of new campuses of the textile university will also help to enhance the skilled human resource of the provinces, which will also translate into the increase of the domestic textile exports.
