Ministry of IT and Telecom has published its one-year performance report where it has pointed out the contributions it made during the 2013-14 in ICT field.
Not to mention, auction of 3G licenses is credited at top of the yearly review with details on how optimized the auction remained and how greatly the MoIT reaped the revenues for the government.
Review said that the auction money of US$1.12 billion that Government has received is fairly above the budgeted targets set in previous years. However, the review didn’t mention the fact that previous targets were set without auctioning 4G licenses, and that the increment which government received was due to auction of one 4G license.
Report further mentions that MoIT was able to issue new LDI license to CMPak, which was on hold for several years due to government’s obligations towards Etisalat.
Report said that US 500,000 dollars were issued by World Bank as a grant for Institutional Development Fund that is being used to review the long-expired telecom policies of Pakistan.
Report said that an international consultant for advising and assisting MoIT in finalizing the integrated Telecom Sector policy framework has been hired. However, no deadline for the completion of revision of policies is communicated in the report.
Report said that Ministry formed National Information Technology Board (NITB) by merging Pakistan Computer Bureau (PCB) and the Electronic Government Directorate (EGD) as both of these institutes had failed to deliver over 13 projects over the years. Report claims that establishment of NITB will help fasten the deployment of projects such as e-Government.
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