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The automated e-Vaccs system, a Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) technological intervention, has improved the vaccine coverage in Punjab from 22 percent to 92 percent during the last three years.

This was informed during a briefing to the visiting media persons’ delegation from Bangladesh on Saturday.

The delegation members included senior journalists from a number of local and international publications.

The delegation was informed that the health, education, agriculture, revenue, land record, law & order, police, crime mapping and other sectors have been completely digitised by adopting Information & Communications Technology during the past six years by completing over 270 projects including e-Stamping, e-Rozgaar, dengue activity tracking system, e-Vaccs, computerisation of all police stations, criminal record management system, Human Resource Management & Information System, Electronic FIR, School information system, Real time monitoring of public schools, Citizen Facilitation and service centres ie eKhidmat Centres, Job Portal, Business Portal, Citizen Contact Centre, Agriculture e-credit scheme, modern farmer extension services, Kissan Card, agriculture marketing information service and Hajj operations.

The delegation took a round of various projects including Citizen Call Centre, Data Centre, a Metro Control Room and the Punjab’s largest state of the art e-Khidmat Markaz, which is providing17 various services under one roof.

The Information Technology University (ITU) academics director briefed the delegation regarding the faculty and various achievements and informed that an accreditation authority, National Computing Education Accreditation Council established by Higher Education Commission has rated CS Department at ITU as “W”, which was the highest rating towards the performance of the ITU. It has become one of the first universities in the world to enter into a formal partnership with EdX, introducing online learning of two Master programmes in Development Studies and Data Sciences with a special focus on entrepreneurship.

The faculty members have won Rs 700 million in competitive research grants, published 465 papers in top journals and conferences and made technology that solved local problems in Pakistan.

Published in Daily Times, July 1^st 2018.