Abstract
![CDATA[With reference to 68th Annual session of Pakistan Engineering Congress (PEC) was held on 19th January 2001 at Lahore, the chief guest of the conference, the Chairman of National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) of Pakistan announced the replication of Matching Grants (MG) program for 21st Century through Citizen Community Boards (CCBs) in all over Pakistan. After a considerable period of three years even today MG program is running in villages, towns and cities of Pakistan under more than 20 thousands CCBs. Millions of the people of various districts of this country are benefiting from the community based sustainable projects. It is concluded that Engineering Congress has also played a significant role because (1) it provided the platform where the program was introduced all over the country. (2) Secondly this platform also provided the opportunities to the engineers, planners, architects and citizens of the country to build the nation together. As the consequences of this joint efforts to build the nation together has been seen at various tehsils and districts, where the engineers, planners, architects and citizens have started to understand each other and work together for sustainable Pakistan. 21st Century Matching Grant Program in the light of Iqbal's characteristics for sustainable Pakistan has been conceived. Thus the program has been reviewed and analysed through 9 criteria of Iqbal's thoughts which lead towards sustainable Pakistan.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 70th Annual Conference of the Pakistan Engineering Congress |
| Publisher | Pakistan Engineering Congress |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
| Event | Pakistan Engineering Congress - Duration: 1 Jan 2006 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Pakistan Engineering Congress |
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| Period | 1/01/06 → … |
Keywords
- sustainable development
- government policy
- Pakistan
