On Going Projects
Joint Venture of Govt. of Balochistan and the Federal Government

Project	Cost	Federal Share	Provincial Share	Expenditure	Progress (in percentage)
	(in Millions)				Financial	Physical
Revamping of Existing Polytechnic Institutes of Balochistan	10.889	8.174	2.724	5.304	51%	90%
Establishment of Data Processing Centre at BBISE, Quetta	19.328	14.496	4.832	8.750	40%	80%
Development of Web Portal for Balochistan	9.47	7.102	2.04	4.60	51%	90%
Strengthening of IT Department	22.130	8.26	13.870	11.350	51%	80%

 

On Going Provincial Funded Projects

Establishment of IT Training Centres at Dhadar, Mach & Pishin.
(these projects are at finalization stage hopefully the classes will be started in the month of November 2009)

On Going Projects

Projects In Planning Phase

Establishment of IT Training Institute/small IT Parks at various Districts of Balochistan e.g. Jhal Magsi, Sibi, Jafferabad, Nushki, Dera Bugti, Khuzdar & Musakhail

Proposed New Project

e-Government projects (video conferencing, e-filing, HR system).
Command & control system for Quetta city.
Public call centre for City District Quetta.
Tele-medicine & Hospital Management System for Health Deptt.
To strengthen IT Sector in Balochistan, this Department has developed a Master Plan to establish a “ IT Complex” with an estimated cost of Rs. 400 Million.
This will house all the Major and Minor IT related activities together in more comprehensive and concrete way e.g. Data warehouse, Web portal Hosting, Software Development Segment for Provincial and District Governments, e-Government linkages for all line Departments and Districts to improve service delivery to Citizens by reducing cost and time, Capacity building of Existing IT Professionals and all employees of Government of Balochistan and to provide fast linkages by facilitating the masses of far flung areas of a vastly spread Province.

Immediate Federal Funding and Attention Required

For IT Complex project sufficient land has been earmarked by the Government of Balochistan. For construction and to establish/housing of all IT Segments under one roof Federal Funding for this huge project would be required;

Immediate release of funds is required for the above mentioned Federally Funded Project; Due to non-release of Federal share in time, this project could not be started.

The present is being fashioned by Information Technology (IT) and the Future will be entirely dependent on IT. From everyday life to high profile jobs, IT will be the soul. Realizing the role that IT is playing and will be playing, the Government of Balochistan has planned another catalyst to our country’s needs namely Balochistan Institute of Information Technology & Management Sciences. The institute has been established at Loralai with a total cost of Rs. 33.4 million.

Pakistan Computer Bureau is initiating a mass scale government employees’ training program with the collaboration of IT Department, Balochistan and the private sector. The developed nations are already reaping the fruits of e-government while we have to take such significant steps that facilitate developing e-government environment. In this connection the IT Training Institute, Quetta was established to keep abreast the government employees of IT advancement.

Equipping Polytechnic Institutes with computer laboratories and other equipments is another project that will enable the students in the polytechnics to be proficient in the use of computers and digitally move towards perfection in their respective professions. The polytechnic work force with an additional tool of IT will give our industry a better competitive ability at national and international levels.

To remove the deficiency of human resource in IT sector, Three IT institutes at Dhadar, Mach and Pishin were established.

IT Department is taking steps to create e-government environment in Balochistan. Presently, non-existence of any infrastructure and shortage of qualified human resource limit pace of e-government development. IT department with the assistance of Federal Ministry of IT & Telecom is working on a plan to strengthen the IT department of Balochistan. These efforts will empower it to implement the Pakistan IT Action Plan. This project will provide a strong technical assistance, infrastructure, logistics support to the department for conceiving, designing, planning and implementing e-government projects.

The main goal of the e-government is to provide citizen centric services with smooth and hassle free interaction with the government. Keeping in view, the Government of Balochistan official web portal along with the website of all departments and districts were developed and uploaded with a joint venture with the federal government. This portal will provide a platform to the citizens to avail various services offered by government departments online.

Local Government Ordinance 2000 devolves the IT Department to district level for the development and promotion of IT. In the begining, IT Department has established District IT Offices in eight districts of Balochistan, where as the approval for other districts has been approved by competent authorities. Soon all District IT offices will be established for extending the services to the grass root level. These offices will be working for the development and promotion of IT at district level line departments.

IT Department in collaboration with Federal government has initiated the project "Automation of Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education" which provide services to a large number of students annually. All students' related business processes will be automated for error free and timely result announcement on web.