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Sindh to get first IT university soon, says CM

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KHAIRPUR: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has announced that the province would soon get its first university of information technology.

He was speaking at the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the IBA Institute of Emerging Technologies here on Saturday evening. He said the Sindh government was extending all possible facilities to the people of the province in the education and health sector. He observed that acquiring IT training had become essential for the progress of the country and urged the youth to work hard in order to effectively play their role in this regard.

He said the IBA institute was being established at a cost of Rs203 million and it was projected to completed by April 2016.

After completion of the construction work for the proposed Khairpur Emerging Technologies College, it would be upgraded to serve as an IT university to become the first such university in Sindh.

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