LAHORE: The leading textile industrialists have announced to extend every kind of practical support to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in establishing a world class Textile Centre for Advance Studies & Applied Research for carrying out research, innovation and value addition in the textile industry.
A high level committee comprising of experts from the academia and representatives of the textile industry will be constituted after approval by the government to explore the possibilities regarding the establishment of the national centre. After working on the idea, the HEC would send a proposal to the federal government for instructions.
Sources in the HEC said that the site for the center would be decided by the government and the industry. The consensus was developed in a recent meeting under the University Industry Technology Support Program (UITSP).
Presiding over the meeting, HEC Executive Director Dr Arshad Ali said that it is an initiative to develop and strengthen linkages between academia and industry to contribute towards the creation of knowledge based economy.
He was of the view that enormous opportunities existed in the textile sector which further developed and contributed to the economy.
More than 40 participants including vice chancellors, faculty members from various universities and representatives from the leading textile industry attended the meeting. They discussed suggestions to improve the relationship between the two sectors for the betterment and provide solutions to the problems being faced by the industry.
The participants agreed to work out and find out areas of interest where academia and the textile industry could collaborate and support each other.
They stressed the need to analyse the gaps between the two sectors and to find out avenues to bridge them.
HEC Advisor Dr Muhammad Lateef, National Textile University Professor Tanveer Hussain, University of Management and Technology Rector Dr Hassan Sohaib Murad and other senior faculty represented academia were among the participants of the meeting.
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