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ConceptRealizing that a nation’s greatest resource is its human resource, Education City is being developedwith a view to meeting the challenges of an ever-changing and complex world and to make Sindhand its capital Karachi a leader in quality education as well as research and development. It isintended to be a hub for the imparting and generation of knowledge in the presence of world-classinfrastructure and campus facilities and a pool of highly qualified academics. It shall provide achance to collaborate with like-minded people and the opportunity to transform ideas into reality.The concept of Education City has evolved out of the desire of successive Governments to empowerthe people by imparting them with the knowledge and skills comparable with the best internationalstandards. Education City aims to be a nerve-centre of excellence, which would bring together thebest of the intellect in the country and from abroad and to provide an environment most conduciveto learning.Distinctive FeaturesApproximately 9,000 acres of land notified as Education City in the year 2006.Core elements of EC are educational and health institutions that will provide locally relevantsolutions toPakistan’s challenge of higher education.Opportunity and attraction to remain and study in Pakistan.Educational institutions will create the opportunity for private R&D businesses as a component of EC.Residential and commercial development though restricted for the purpose of Education City only,will provide ‘quality of life’ or ‘character of community’ that is typical of educational communities.Run by the fully empowered Education City Board.Land has been earmarked for institutions.Governance and ProceduresEducation City Board In order to prepare meaningful structure and master planning of theEducation City project, Education City Act provides for the constitution of Education City Board. Theproposed Board will be headed by the Chief Minister, Sindh as the Chairman of the Board andChairman of Sindh Board of Investment will act as the Vice Chairman of the board. In addition therewill be seven (07) official members, which include secretaries of various concerned administrativedepartments and 5 private sector/stakeholders members.The Board shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with powers toacquire, hold and dispose of property, movable and immovable, and may, by the said name, sueand be sued.Sindh - The Land of Endless Opportunities