Salvation of Pakistani Youth Only Through Modern Technology-Skills Being A Road to Global Corporate Dominance

We have entered the era of Technology, though as a nation we lack almost every aspect of it. In the near future the ruling powers in the world shall be defined by the amount of water they hold or the advancement they have made in technology.  

Keeping in view the current political affairs, to excel in education is perhaps the ultimate manner to clear the stigma over the Pakistani Nationals. 

Our educational institutions are falling back in terms of teaching and research, although it’s their basic mandate. On the contrary, our industries too, seem less interested in outlining its needs of the kind of specialized man power synonymous to the world market. What many do not recognize is that these industries must work in harmony to benefit the entire system. The academia, by including an updated curriculum in coherent with the industry conveying what should be updated. Here lies the concrete basis of all the other tribulations that follow. Our teachers, trainers and lecturers do no emphasize over the collateral good that triggers when we learn what is to be learnt. This includes, all sorts of etiquette, morality and knowledge that pertains to our ever-growing needs in the society. This is causing major leadership crisis. Awareness of education as well as value added education is the essence to overcome this turmoil. 

As I intended to return the favours bestowed upon me by my motherland, I saw an opportunity to fulfill this dream of mine by giving to the youth a gift in the form of top of the line value added education & skills that will bridge the gap between the needs of industry and the skills of people.  

My Company CIBA Consulting Pakistan (Pvt) Limited which is an Information Technology Consulting company is partners with SAP in SAP Learning Hub-Student Edition & Professional Edition.  

The company operates keeping in focus Afghanistan and Pakistan pioneering in the Number One Skills and Value-Added Education in these countries, making SAP extremely cost-effective whereas before, only professionals could attain this certification at high expense. CIBA is proud to achieve above 90% results in Training and Certification with over 500 graduates till date, placed in prestigious positions in multinational companies across the country. Another 4800 are currently undergoing Training and Certification. 

On the 19th of April, 2017, CIBA Consulting Pakistan became the best Re-seller Partner of SAP Learning Hub – Student edition in MENA region. 

CIBA is set to empower the poorest of the poor with the power of technology and its knowledge and aims to transform the phenomenally talented youth that is a vast majority of our population, into a potent force equipped with the skills of latest technology and its comprehension, through SAP Training & Certification as well as many other skills in order to utilize their expertise & their presence felt in every industry on a global scale. Through SAP, students are trained to become successful professionals or entrepreneurs, whose services would be immensely valuable to industries providing high end job placements. In this manner, locales will benefit and the rate of unemployment will decrease by leaps and bounds. 

We, at CIBA felt that the youth of Lyari has faced an immensely rough patch and has been battle inoculated. They deserve to turn over a new leaf, and be renowned and catapulted into the mainstream of Pakistan. For this venture, CIBA decided to create its sub-organization:  

"Lyari Innovation Technology Enhancement (LITE)"

LITE was then phased out into 7 stages.  

1. A Technological map of Lyari to be prepared showing diversity at its pinnacle, where hundreds of communities have been living harmoniously for decades.

2. Choosing a volunteering alpha couple from each faction for better communication between CIBA and the whole community. 

3. During stage 1 & 2, to begin SAP Training & Certification in Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari and create a top tier potent force.

4. Once the picking process of the volunteer alpha couples to be complete they were to be homogenized with the trained students of BBSUL, that shall aid them with the skills and expertise needed. 

5. The volunteer alpha couple then shall set its course back to its community teaching them the competencies learned. 

6. Eventually, every home shall have enough aptitude to make their own products, while CIBA shall be providing them with linkages of Software companies across the globe. 

7. Soon enough, through monitoring & utmost support, these homes will turn into ‘Software Development Houses’ and the residents, an emblem of talent and vigor.  

This pursuit should be able to transform Lyari ultimately as the “Silicon Valley of Pakistan” within a span of 5 to 10 years. 

Putting this vision into viable practicing, CIBA chose to begin this journey of education and development in Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University, Lyari.  

Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari (BBSUL), is the first ever university of Pakistan to create following four SAP records: 

a) To adopt and implement SAP Training & Certification as the first university of Pakistan. 

b) First university to enroll 256 students and issue them SAP-User IDs 

c) A total of 77 students sat in as a single batch ever for SAP Certification which is the highest number of students to sit in SAP Certification in a single go till date in Pakistan and passed in flying colors. 

d) The most difficult of SAP Modules, SAP BASIS was cleared in the first attempt by 4 undergraduate students of BBSUL which even the most qualified and experienced professionals are unable to clear in the first attempts. 

BBSUL has modelled a remarkable impact by its talent and potential in the province of Sindh, thus, CIBA perceives that a much more massive jolt could be created in all educational institutions for Pakistan and worldwide.  

With stage 5 close to completion, Lyari shall become a hub of software houses, buzzing with creativity and success in no time, being a massive revenue generator for Pakistan and an exemplar tech-City for the IT World.  

Our regular visits to Gwadar show that tremendous progress has already been achieved in regard to CPEC Development. This upcoming Mega Project is picking pace, with a magnanimous flow of vacancies that are now flooding the market.  

Our neighbours, like China and India are stronger in SAP beyond our recognition producing thousands of consultants where as our numbers are close to negligible. Soon large industrial names shall phase out without integration with technology in terms of the overall industry and its proven competent resources. 

In case we fail to deliver and produce adequate resource, China shall be compelled to bring its very own SAP Consultants resulting maximum pay and allowance of the total investment to rebound to China causing unimaginable deprivation to our Pakistani talented & educated youth.  

By 2018, CIBA aims to Train and Certify 20,000 to 30,000 students catering for the initial SAP Resources for the upcoming industries in this mega project of CPEC.  

CIBA Consulting Pakistan (Pvt) Limited), has begun SAP Training & Certification for the students of University of Turbat, Gwadar Campus. Total enrollments have reached a number of 187 with most applicants being female. Classes shall be commencing soon. 

CIBA Consulting Pakistan has also signed an agreement with Gwadar Port Authority to establish and operate Pak-China Technical & Vocational Institute in the present structure of old Gwadar college overlooking the Gwadar Free Trade Zone. These are sole endeavors of CIBA. 

We have taken this initiative so as to cater for the initial SAP Resources for the upcoming industries, and to boost the morale of the locales of Gwadar and bring them into the mainstream of the corporate world, thereby empowering them to be at leading positions in the CPEC Industrial Corridor. 

This was essential to create an aura of inclusion for the citizens of Gwadar so to ease their inhibitions and state of being alienated. The young and sharp minds of these individuals are raw and need to be molded into positivity. Without this effort, it will create great political grievances, as well as portray the image of all foreigners as well as other citizens from Pakistan as nothing but trespassers. 

As you read this article, in this very moment, the building is being renovated, and this is to follow installing of state-of-the-art equipment so as to begin with vocational training as soon as possible. 

The current renovation process is an organized vocational training also a part of our curriculum where 650 local applicants are already in our databank, keen, willing, ready and able to start. This is a new concept altogether where, students themselves are learning to build their very own institute in order to learn architectural skills, and once complete, the institute shall have many more vocational trainings for these candidates that will be able to enhance their expertise as craftsmen. 

With top tier excelling in SAP and the middle lower tiers training at the vocational institute, the technical skills acquired by all tiers of youth in Gwadar granting them with wonderful employment opportunities thereby placing them on the driver’s seat of all the industries planned in CPEC Mega Project. 

Soon we will be obtaining few more public-sector ghost buildings in every province of Pakistan to setup advanced vocational and technical institutes for the benefit of the national youth. 

SAP certification provides an instant leap from being a job seeker to a job provider. It is value added education that adds more merit to our brilliant students that get recruited in the best positions in prestigious firms, that allows them to experience and understand all the must haves and not's before they begin one which is their very own. We are integrating SAP as a job oriented certification at the cheapest rates at the lowest global cost, for our under-privileged which will be a two-way corridor for new talent to rise and old talent to hone itself even further. 

Through SAP and now with the addition of other vocational trainings, we shall train students to become successful professionals or entrepreneurs, whose services would be immensely valuable to our industries. This way the academia is being gradually integrated with the current syllabi of global enterprise; and our industries fully aware of the resources that it can use.  

From this little but significant effort we are working towards a complete turn-around for the future of the Pakistani youth. We are prodding upon this highway of success but an acceleration is a must. For this accomplishment, we need able bodied and like-minded citizens to come together at a platform with a mission to aid the progression of Pakistan by any means necessary. It will be nothing less than a marvel when our business graduates will transform from mere graduates to promising business owners that will nurture more to come, sustaining the infinite loop of the well-trained & groomed, taken as precedents & development models by other developing countries to follow.  

My inspiration and impetus for these triumphs at the age of 67 has been none other than divine help and the motto of my school, Lawrence College Murree Hills that is “Never Give In”. When I can attain this now then anything is possible with determination, perseverance and dedication