TEVTA to start courses in garments business

TEVTA and the Faisalabad Garment City would join hands to provide technical and vocational skills to the youth


Our Correspondent February 11, 2016
TEVTA and the Faisalabad Garment City would join hands to provide technical and vocational skills to the youth. PHOTO: FILE

LAHORE:


Short courses in garments industry would soon be started at Government Institute of Emerging Technology, Township, Lahore, with the collaboration of TiKa, a Turkish Organisation, Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Chairperson Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said on Thursday.


Sheikh was speaking to Faisalabad Garments City chairman Rehan Naseem Bharara at the TEVTA Secretariat.  TEVTA Chief Operating Officer Jawad Ahmed Qureshi was also present.

Sheikh said the courses would help the youth secure better jobs in both local and international markets. He termed the Faisalabad Garment City a step in the right direction with regard to addressing unemployment. The TEVTA and the Faisalabad Garment City would join hands to provide technical and vocational skills to the unemployed youth.

Sheikh said the TEVTA had started industry-demand driven short courses for the youth from across the Punjab. “We have completed the first and the second phase of the programme.

The third phase in which 46 demand-driven short courses will be offered to a batch of 20,000 trainees is being started on 22nd of this month.”

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2016.

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