Zubair Qureshi
Ministry of Science & Technology is striving to establish strong linkages between academia and industry for putting knowledge into practice for the collective good of the people.
These views were expressed by Additional Secretary Ministry of Science and Technology Dr Syed Attaur Rehman while addressing a walk and ceremony titled “Plastic waste management and its low-cost solutions” organized at the auditorium of International Islamic University Old Campus.
Dr. Syed Attaur Rehman said low-cost machines developed by various universities’ students, which were approved and awarded by Pakistan Science Foundation, were also put on display and before the start of the programme the chief guest and other dignitaries present on the occasion examined the machines and also witnessed practical demonstration of converting waste plastic material recycled into plastic tough tiles and plastic thread.
Additional Secretary Ministry of Science and Technology Dr Syed Attaur Rehman was all praise for the students who had come up with low-cost machines to utilize the plastic waste into utility and hoped that these machines would be refined and improved, and would be utilized on mass-scale to dispose of the plastic waste in efficient fashion.
Dr Athar Masood from Mechanical faculty of International Islamic University in his welcome address praised the efforts put in by the students and hoped that such activities would continue in future as well.
