ISLAMABAD: Caretaker IT and Telecom Minister Dr Umar Saif on Wednesday introduced to set up of 10,000 e-Rozgar centres throughout the USA . to facilitate freelancers as most of them no longer have a desirable workplace.
“Around 1.5 million freelancers are working normally in Pakistan,” Dr Saif stated in an announcement posted on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
The minister stated the convenience of freelancers used to be critical for them to enhance their work overall performance and efficiency.
“If we can facilitate one million freelancers, their salary will be stronger to around $10 billion annually,” he said, adding that with measures already taken along with permission to preserve up to 50 per cent of their export earnings and convenient mode of receiving their payments the freelance things to do are predicted to develop rapidly.
The IT ministry has recognized that the majority of freelancers belong to smaller cities and towns whilst the female IT specialists are typically from faraway areas the place they do now not have job opportunities in the applicable field.
While acknowledging that most freelancers do now not have the required amenities along with a work surrounding and quick net in their homes, Dr Saif stated that below the new policy the e-Rozgar centres will be equipped with all indispensable amenities and each of them will have the capacity of a hundred humans to work in.
Under the scheme, the owners of structures who want to get their residences transformed into e-Rozgar centres will be granted interest-free loans to convert their real property into workplaces.
While speaking to the media recently the caretaker minister stated that the most vital factor of e-Rozgar centres will be the networking and connectivity among the freelancers and the ordinary atmosphere will assist them to go for high-end initiatives etc.
