Islamabad, 26^th July, 2017.

STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCUSSED THE PERFORMANCE OF PAKISTAN COUNCIL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES (PCRET)

The Standing Committee expressed satisfaction over the performance of Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) however, the Committee was of the view that PCRET have the abilities to introduce modern technologies with their existing laboratories but unfortunately they could not able to perform well due to shortage of allocated funds. The Committee strongly recommended to enhance the budget of PCRET so that they could perform in the field of Research & Development. The meeting of the Standing Committee on Science and Technology held today in Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) under the Chairmanship of Ch. Tariq Bashir Cheema, MNA.

The Committee expressed dissatisfaction over non-cooperative attitude of the higher authority for not providing service protection to their employees and directed that PCRET should take appropriate steps to safeguard the interest of its employees so that they could able to perform their services for the betterment of the department.  The Committee also directed that PCRET should introduce their products in the market through public-private partnership so that the huge revenue could be added to government ex-chequer. The Committee was stunned to know that no project of PCRET has got approval by Planning Division in current PSDP however, the Committee directed the ministry to resubmit all proposed projects of PCRET to Planning Division for its approval.

MNAs, Mr. Sarzameen, Chaudhary Armaghan Subhani, Ms. Shazia Mubashar, Ms. Musarat Rafique Mahesar, Mr. Aftab Shahban Mirani, Ms. Shamas-un-Nisa, Mr. Ali Muhammad Khan, Mr. Lal Chand Malhi, Mr. Sajid Ahmad, Mr. Mehboob Alam, Ms. Aliya Kamran and Engineer Usman Khan Tarakai attended the meeting, besides officials of the Ministry.