By Our Correspondent
LAHORE : University of Veterinary &
Animal Sciences (UVAS) has claimed to be the
first ever public sector university of the
country to introduce online examination
system. According to a press statement
issued here Friday, the mid-term exam for
Winter Semester 2009 was successfully
conducted from December 7 to 14. Despite
very limited IT resources, about 2,000
undergraduate and postgraduate students from
7 degree programmes undertook the exams both
at the varsity’s City and Ravi Campus
Pattoki without any major problem.
EDB finalises road map for standardisation
of agriculture implements
ISLAMABAD (March 13 2010): The Engineering
Development Board (EDB) here on Friday
finalised a road map for standardisation of
agricultural implements to boost agri-production
in the country. Draft PC-I prepared by
Technology Up-gradation and Skill
Development Company (TUSDEC) was examined in
a meeting, which also reviewed the progress
of various sub-committees.
The meeting decided to include cost of
implements and development of identified
implements in consultation with
representatives of EDB, Farms Machinery
Institute (FMI), Pakistan Agricultural
Research Council (PARC) and Agricultural
Machinery Research Institute (AMRI).
It noted that introduction of farm
mechanisation and development of efficient
well-designed agricultural implements would
boost agricultural system of the country.
The CEO EDB informed that the committee had
earlier identified 15 agricultural
implements for development and
standardisation in consultation and active
participation of stakeholder of agriculture
sector including farmers and manufacturers.
TUSDEC will produce complete engineering
drawings on Computer Aided Design system
(CAD) and Computer Aided Analysis (CAA) for
identified agricultural implements.
It will also arrange the dies, inspection
jigs and fixtures for the development of
implements in order to ensure production of
uniform quality and standardised
agricultural implements throughout the
country. The standardised working drawings
will be made available to the selected
manufacturers of farms machines and
implements, the meeting decided. Various
proposals including material bank, common
facilities centres, easy loans to
manufacturers & farmers and provision of
costly implements to small farmers on rental
basis was also discussed.
Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2010
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