President of Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI), Shabbir Hussain has said that the focus of our academia and research institutions should be on industry and commerce.

In a meeting with delegation of National Textile University, he said that trained human resources produced by the university could be utilized to solve the problems being confronted by the industrial sector.

The president said that missing links between industry and academia that has further compounded the industrial problems particularly those related to up gradation of technology.

He said that different universities have different syllabuses for engineers which are reducing the scope of their trained human resources in the industries concerned.

The delegation visited under the leadership of General Manager of NTU, Maria Qadri. The delegation was also briefed by the Dr Habib Aslam chairman FCCI standing committee on industry- linkages.