For the last one year, since the inception of GJTMC at Karachi, this has been an honor for me to serve the Pakistan Gems and Jewellery Development Company as principal of the institute. The company entrusted me and held me responsible to fulfill their dreams of establishing a center of international standard at the stage when the present building had yet to be converted to a proper institute and academic programs were still to be planned. With the Grace of Almighty ALLAH and the guidance of PGJDC Management, within a very short span of only one year the efforts of my dedicated team yielded fruit and we succeeded in achieving our objectives.
During the first year of the establishment of the centre, a common commercial building acquired a shape of a proper educational institute of international standards, eight training Programs were launched , 450 students were awarded certificates and modern laboratories for Diamond grading, Gems Identification, Stone faceting, Stone Carving, Jewellery Pattern in Wax, Jewel Cad and Matrix was developed.
Efforts for further progress and up gradation of the institute is continuously going on. Now it has been planned to initiate diploma courses along with the certificate programs, therefore, preparations for introduction of Diploma Course in Jewellery Manufacturing and designing in the next session are at final stage.
It is expected that the journey of trust, cooperation, guidance, teamwork and successes which started a year ago will continue with the same zeal and zest in the future as well. At the successful completion of one year of the institute, I feel my moral duty to pay regards and thank to all of my seniors and colleagues for the guidance and cooperation offered by them in every respect.

For the last one year GJTMC Karachi has been working in the area for the enhancement and improvement for the Gems and Jewellery Training and Manufacturing and established this trade on international standards. During this period the centre has trained 604 students in which 82% of the participants were male and remaining were the females. Most of the participants were selected from the Jewellery sector and others were those who aere interested to be in this trade. The centre offered the following short courses in this regard. The details are as under:

This is an amazing and tremendous achievement of GJTMC Karachi during a very short period of time. It is also an honor for this centre that during a very short period of time the management has established and launched nine different courses in various disciplines. In the coming year, the centre has planned to introduce one-year diploma program for the Graduates in the area of Arts and Design. This type of diploma program will be introduced in Pakistan for the first time. Three new short courses in the area of Gems and Jewellery will also be introduced very soon for the Jewellery Sector. The Commercial Wax Model Development on Rapid Prototyping Machine has also been started. The Jewellery Sector has also been facilitated by giving them access to the Computer Lab for designing their models in Jewel CAD and Matrix. It is an honor for me and my colleagues to be a part of this establishment.

Master Trainers' Program:

Professional Integration Course is designed for the instructors for further training and developing new ideas in the field of Jewellery Designing.

Exhibition:

During our Professional Integration Course the trainees developed themed jewellery pieces for the International Exhibitions named Vieenza and JCK. After manufacturing the final sets they were displayed in our institute.

New Services offered from 1st October 2009:

 

Seminars organized at GJTMC Karachi:

Topic:Assaying and Refining.
Moderator:Mr. Abdul Sattar.
Event Date:9th February 2009.

Topic:Alternative Materials for Gold.
Moderator:Dr. Shahzad Alam.
Event Date:10th February 2009.

Two Weeks Jewel CAD Training Program offered for Women on 10th June 2009.

Special Rapid Prototyping Machine Training Course.