The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved UETs project Establishment of Jalozai Campus on September 19, 2007, with a price-tag of six and half billion rupees. A press conference was organized by the Directorate of Media and Public Relations on Monday, 24th September, 2007, where the vice chancellor briefed the journalists about the salient features of the project.
He said the NWFP UET would soon start work on a seven-year project of establishing a new campus in Jalozai, with a cost of Rs. 6.565 billion, for which the Higher Education Commission (HEC) is the sponsoring agency, and has already allocated for it Rs.30 million in the PSDP 2007-08.
“The Project aims at developing the Jalozai campus by establishing eight departments at undergraduate level, and postgraduate programs in some disciplines. The Jalozai campus would help upgrade the UET by expanding its capacity, improving the quality of education, and increasing relevance to national needs“, he said.
He further informed the press that the project was recently approved by the ECNEC in its meeting, where Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz assured full support of the federal government to educational projects of the Frontier province.
The campus would be established on 350 acres of land, and will be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities of a world-class university, and linkages would be developed with foreign educational institutions.
