Under the direction of Project Director, PIU Policy & Strategy and Social Safeguard team visited proposed Institute of Surgical Technology, Sialkot which will be converted into Centre of Excellence under ADB’s funded project.

The COE will impart futuristic and advanced facilities in priority economic sector “Light Engineering” referred as a sunshine sector with high value added export potential particularly in surgical instruments manufacturing driven by global demand in healthcare and advancement in medical sciences.

Hence team also visited existing facilities, infrastructure, courses offered, current enrollment and gender component in order to ascertain the bottlenecks which will be taken up by Project Implementation Unit-IWRPP.