There is an acute shortage of sophisticated scientific
equipment in most universities and research laboratories of the country which
acts as an impediment to the development of scientific research in Pakistan. Due
to the high cost of acquiring and maintaining modern tools of research, Higher
Education Commission has initiated a unique program of sharing the scientific
instrumentation facilities which would enable the scientific community to have
access to sophisticated equipment while providing a source of funding to those
institutions which make their instruments available. Higher Education Commission
has also launched a program to provide funds to public sector
universities/degree awarding institutions for purchase of spare parts along with
repair and maintenance of expensive scientific laboratory equipment lying
inoperative for want of repair/spare parts.
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