ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) has provided training to12,000 fresh engineers from across the country during the last year toenhance their skills and boost up their confidence, expertise andperformance.The country has 2,60,000 engineers registered with the PEC including2,39,000 male and 17,423 female. Among all, 30 percent of Pakistaniengineers are serving abroad, an official told APP.Listing different initiatives taken by PEC, he said this institution hasintroduced strong reforms since the 2015 and the degree of its registeredinstitutions is now acknowledged at international level.He said the degrees of the institutions of 19 countries are accepted atinternational level and PEC is also among those institutions.PEC controls 126 universities in the country and never allows admission ofa single additional student in these institutions against the criteria.Otherwise, PEC imposes fine of Rs500,000 per student.He said PEC awards 10 percent of its scholarships to the needy students.
PEC, through recent reforms, made it mandatory for the internationalcompanies in Pakistan to appoint 70 percent of engineers from withincountry however majority of them are discharged on the site which needsattention of the authorities.The council, he said has signed an agreement with China for includingPakistani companies in China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). PEC hasalso signed agreements with many international companies to hold jointventures with Pakistani companies.He said PEC has been facing issues related to service structure forengineers, inclusion of engineers in policy making process, job issue of50,000 engineers, amendments in PEC Act and technical allowance.The official urged the government to fill up 12,000 vacant posts forengineers in the government departments which if filled can accommodatemaximum unemployed engineers.
