Remedy: Youth need to be saved from falling into wrong hands: Cheema
NAVTTC chief says skill development only way to overcome poverty
NAVTTC chief says skill development only way to overcome poverty. PHOTO: navttc.org
ISLAMABAD:
A senior official has said that the jobless youth could be saved from falling into terrorists’ trap by giving them vocational and technical training to get jobs.
National Vocational & Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) Executive Director Zulfiqar Cheema said at a press briefing on Monday that unemployment, poverty and frustration could push the youth towards crime and subversive activities and vocational and skill training was the only effective tool to counter this threat.
He said that job placement centres have been set up across the country to make data of the skilled manpower available to the industry.
The NAVTTC is already in touch with the industry and receiving their demands and technical curriculum was being updated and a strategy being devised to train the youth according to the market demand.
Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority Chairman Irfan Qasir Sheikh said that the TEVTA was training more than 1,00,000 youth every year. He said that trainees would also get interest-free loans to run their own businesses.
British Council head of Higher Education and Skills Sarah Pervez said that the British Council was supporting the NEVTTC and the TEVTA in improving the quality of technical and vocational training by utilising UK experience and expertise in skill development.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2016.
A senior official has said that the jobless youth could be saved from falling into terrorists’ trap by giving them vocational and technical training to get jobs.
National Vocational & Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) Executive Director Zulfiqar Cheema said at a press briefing on Monday that unemployment, poverty and frustration could push the youth towards crime and subversive activities and vocational and skill training was the only effective tool to counter this threat.
He said that job placement centres have been set up across the country to make data of the skilled manpower available to the industry.
The NAVTTC is already in touch with the industry and receiving their demands and technical curriculum was being updated and a strategy being devised to train the youth according to the market demand.
Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority Chairman Irfan Qasir Sheikh said that the TEVTA was training more than 1,00,000 youth every year. He said that trainees would also get interest-free loans to run their own businesses.
British Council head of Higher Education and Skills Sarah Pervez said that the British Council was supporting the NEVTTC and the TEVTA in improving the quality of technical and vocational training by utilising UK experience and expertise in skill development.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2016.