By Adnan Rafique
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque on Monday said agreement between NTC, Khazana Enterprise and Computer Research Private Limited for Academic ERP (eDU SMARTZ) a step towards achieving PM’s vision of Digital Pakistan.
‘This agreement between two would effectively prove a solution for automating the entire campus managing all operations related to educational setup as per International Standards,’ Syed Amin Ul Haque made these remarks at a signing agreement between Khazana Enterprise and Computer Research Private Limited for Academic ERP (eDU SMARTZ).
The signing ceremony, held at National Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) Headquarters, was attended Managing Director NTC Miraj Gul, Khalid Shamsi CRPL CEO, Sameer Shamsi CEO Ecreaterz pvt ltd, Ahsan Rasheed Khan Khazana Enterprises and senior officials of NTC Headquarters.
According to the details, NTC, Khazana and CRPL have entered into this Digital Services Solution Agreement under Public Private Partnership (PPP), where NTC will provide the platform through its deployed Infrastructure and locally hosted software / Application developed by CRPL.
This would ensure integrity of the data in a secured environment. This Academic ERP gives an unprecedented leverage to the management in planning and administering the activities for the whole academic year.
Acknowledging the NTC’s role, the minister congratulated NTC Management for their efforts in the phenomenal development of ICT infrastructure for Public Sector with State of the art technologies.
‘Indeed it is a matter of great pride and honour for NTC under the umbrella of Ministry of IT and Telecom to achieve this milestone as per Governments Vision,’ said the minister, mentioning that in this digital age reducing the ‘˜Digital Divide’ the need for Academic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) was crucial.
He said the educational Institution’s in Pakistan were facing a prime challenge in management of Data. The educational departments continue to maintain records manually due to existence of system dissimilarity resulting in mounting disengaged data. Therefore, the digitilization of manual records is imperative to increase efficiency, establishing and maintaining quality and standards in education.
