Minister stresses long-term and meaningful linkages between public, private sectors.
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Addressing a steering committee meeting at the Committee Room of the Planning and Development Department, Sarwar laid stress on long-term and meaningful linkages between public and private sectors.
He said these linkages were vital to producing a skilled workforce for the local as well as the international labour market. He said that technical education and vocational training institutes of the province had been training 550,000 young people every year under the Punjab Skills Development Strategy-2018. In 2015-16, he said, the Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) imparted demand-driven training to 173,246 young people, the Punjab Vocational Training Council trained 134,762 people and the Punjab Skills Development Fund trained 56,187 people.
He said the Punjab Vocational Training Council imparted training to 4,121 young people in collaboration with the School Education Department. He said technical and vocational training institutes in the private sector had imparted training to 33,921 people under the skill development programme.
The minister expressed his displeasure with the absence of some secretaries from the meeting. He directed the absentees to ensure their presence at the next meeting.
He said that technical training institutes’ capacity had been built and curriculum updated as part of government’s efforts to find more jobs for the skilled labour in the domestic market as well as member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Culture Muhammad Arshad, Industries Secretary Nabeel Javed and Skill Development Programme Project Director Ameer Khatak attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 9th, 2016.
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