ISLAMABAD: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), fully loaded with expectations of the two peoples, is entering the eighth year since it was officially inaugurated.
According to details, just in the year 2015 when CPEC officially kicked off, Umer Idrees, a young man from Lahore, graduated from Punjab University. So far, he has devoted almost all his career to CPEC.
Following CPEC’s development route, Umer Idrees’ work in CPEC started from the infrastructure project Lahore Orange Line Metro Train system, to a project focusing on improving people’s livelihood called the ‘Smart Classroom’, which is hopefully to breathe new life into Pakistan’s education system in the near future.
“The objective of the project is to modernize the classrooms to improve the accessibility of students from one location to the best teachers located at another place, overcoming the limitation of physical distances,” Umer presented the project with pride. Now he is working as the site engineer. According to Umer, the smart classrooms use a variety of digital tools including smart screens, smart boards, digital textbooks and audio-visual tools to make classroom learning more effective and engaging. In the past decade, emphasis has been placed on improving higher education system and educational infrastructure by the Pakistani government.
Currently, a total of 100 smart classrooms are being built at 50 public universities in 49 cities from Hunza in the northernmost to Karachi in the far south, covering all the provinces and regions of Pakistan, which means the state-of-the-art educational resources will be better utilized and distributed for young people over the whole country in the near future. –Agencies
