-Inaugurates IT Complex in Parliament House
By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: The Chairman Senate, Muhammad Sadiq Sanjranihas said that the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the functioning of institutions of high public importance. He said that to this end, the Parliament needs to rely more and more on information technology to facilitate the people.
This was stated by him on Tuesday while speaking after inaugurating recently established IT Complex in the Parliament House. The DG IT Senate, Syed Asim Raza apprised the Chairman about the current IT projects undertaken as a part of Chairman’s initiative of Digital Parliamentary Framework, which consists of upgradation of IT Infrastructure, Automation of Parliamentary Processes and Citizen Centric IT services.
The Chairman was briefed that the newly established IT Complex comprises of Telecasting Cell, Software Development Hall, Helpdesk, IT Store and Workshop. The Chairman Senate also inaugurated the project of Digitalization of Analog Video Record of the Senate Proceedings. Chairman Senate appreciated and lauded the efforts of IT Directorate.
Speaking on the occasion, Sadiq Sanjrani underlined that Parliament is a forum, where the will of the people resides and synergy of ICT makes it convenient for the people to communicate and interact with their representatives directly.
The Chairman Senate further said that our aim is to galvanize Parliament’s functioning by introducing state of art ICT Services. He hoped that the newly developed IT Complex will provide maximum enablement to the Senators, Senate Staff and ultimately make the Institution more efficient.
Senators, Kauda Babar, Fida Muhammad and Secretary Senate, Qasim Samad Khan were also present on the occasion.
