Government to Allocate Rs 6 billion for Digital Transformation in KPK

 
 
 
Government to allocate Rs 6 Billion for digital transformational in KPK

Digital transformation can help businesses expand towards international markets and governments to assimilate GDP and tax data more accurately. It also allows researchers (R&D) to analyse the economic trends of companies successfully and helps consumers make better choices from a more comprehensive array of goods and services in a short time and at lower costs. Digitisation also helps social sectors redirect their philanthropic activity toward the needy and poor faster and with better accuracy. All this reduces poverty and enhances employment levels and government social security expenses in the long run.   

Given the importance of digital transformation, the Government of Pakistan has accelerated the digitisation ecosystem to expand the knowledge-based economy and spur socio-economic growth. For this purpose, the government has signed agreements with various institutions to initiate five information technology projects for digital transformation in KPK. These five projects include several citizen facilitation centres, a nano degree programme for imparting digital skills to youth, a paperless government programme, a digital city in Haripur, and a science and technology museum in Mardan.

The citizen facilitation centres will be set up in seven provinces’ divisions and extended to other districts in the next phase. Its estimated cost is about Rs2.1 billion.

Under the second project, nano-degrees would be awarded to 400 youth of the province, digital economy and skills centre will be established in Mardan.

The third project is implementing a paperless government programme under which 32 administrative departments have been identified for digitisation.

The fourth project is establishing Pakistan Digital City as the first special technology zone of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that will create more than 20,000 jobs.

Establishing a Science and Technology Museum in Mardan will promote scientific learning, which will pave the way toward expanding the knowledge-based economy in the province. Its estimated cost is about Rs3 billion.

The coalition government is focused on promoting digitisation in the country to facilitate citizens and set a standardised foundation for upgrading new technologies by educating the youth about this era of digitalisation.

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