ISLAMABAD - Successful demonstration of production of electricity from coal at Thar by Pakistan Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR) may help overcome current energy shortage in the country.
Senate Chairman Standing Committee on Science and technology Senator, Professor Sajid Mir said this while presiding over a meeting held at PCSIR office on Thursday. He said that PCSIR can play a pivotal role in meeting energy needs in long and short term. While briefing the Committee, Chairman, PCSIR Dr.Shaukat Pervez said out of the 4000 research publications that PCSIR has to its credit, 70 percent are on evaluation of local materials for use in various sectors.The Chairman said that the scientists and technologists of PCSIR developed 684 industrial processes and products and have 350 patents, on locally available raw materials He said that a large number of formulated products being imported at exorbitant rates by the textile, leather, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, household chemicals, food additives and consumer in the form of emulsions, surfactants, resins, adhesives, plastic parts, perfumes, flavors and other chemical and non-chemical products result in depletion of foreign exchange.