Construction work on the country’s first state of the art Islamabad IT Park accelerated to ensure its completion this year: PM Shehbaz

ISLAMABAD, July 20 (SABAH): Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said construction work on the country’s first state of the art Islamabad IT Park has been accelerated to ensure its completion this year.

Speaking on the occasion of his visit to the under construction IT Park in Islamabad on Saturday, PM Shehbaz said work on this project is continuing round the clock. He said the IT Park will be completed at a cost of twenty five billion rupees with seventy million dollars provided by South Korea as a soft loan.

The Prime Minister recalled that the project was awarded to the Korean company in 2022.

Expressing satisfaction over the quality of construction work, the Prime Minister said this IT Park will house 120 offices of IT enabled companies and provide job opportunities to ten thousand youth.

Prime Minister said more IT parks will be established at the federal and provincial levels and millions of youth will benefit from them. He mentioned that Rs 80 billion have been earmarked in the budget for the IT sector.