Thar coal, related projects: National Assembly body asks Ministry, PCSIR to give presentation

The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Science and Technology directed the Ministry and Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) to brief the body on Thar coal and its related projects. The Committee met here with Dr Abdul Qadir Khanzada in the chair.
While showing its displeasure over the absence of the PCSIR representatives from Balochistan and Sindh provinces, the committee asked Director General PCSIR to brief the body on the set-up and the development and the non-development expenditures including research projects of the PCSIR.
During the meeting, the Committee was briefed regarding the PSDP and R&D Projects of the PCSIR and the R&D Labs and Training centers in Sindh and Balochistan. The Committee also directed the PCSIR to call all stakeholders in the Committee's meeting, which it decided to hold in Karachi in May, 2012.
The committee further asked the PCSIR to again brief the Committee in its next meeting to be held in May in Islamabad only about research projects not construction projects. The Committee underlined the need for result-oriented research output which could help the nation.
Chairman of the committee asked the PCSIR to submit a paper on different varieties of apricot in Gilgit Baltistan and problems during its growing. The Committee directed the Ministry to constitute a committee comprising different chairmen and DGs of its attached departments, which would evaluate the projects before going to the Planning Division.