District-level courses to help develop industry

TEVTA chairman says programmes will be demand driven and as per needs of industry

LAHORE: Technical and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Chairman Irfan Qaiser Sheikh has said that TEVTA will start demand-driven courses with the help of the District Board of Management (BoM) as per the needs of industries.

While addressing the meeting of District BoM here on Thursday at TEVTA Secretariat, the chairman observed that the meetings were aimed at increasing the liaison between the local industry and TEVTA as all District BoMs consist of representatives from local industries.



Irfan Qaiser further said that this liaison will increase job opportunities for the youth of our country which is more than 60 percent of the total population. He added that in the last three yearsm TEVTA has focused on the courses of construction, hospitality, beauticians and other China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) related programmes.

He informed the meeting that countries like Germany and Japan had achieved the development by focusing on short courses of technical and vocational education. Irfan further told the meeting that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had assigned the task to train half million youth of Punjab in four years, which will be completed till next year. He said TEVTA has also provided on-job training to 78,000 students and this number would go as high as 150,000.



While further reviewing the performance of the last three years, Irfan Qaiser added TEVTA was provided a developmental budget of Rs2 billion three years ago and this figure had now doubled. “Is is being spent on the youth,” he continued.

He added that TEVTA wax also establishing a technical university at the Government College of Technology on Raiwind Road.

However, initial classes will be started at Government Emerging Technologies College Township. “Once the building of the varsity is set up, classes will be shifted to Raiwind Road,” he added.

BoM included members belonging to 22 districts of Punjab including Lahore, Kasur, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Okara and Multan who belonged to the local chamber of commerce.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 6^th, 2017.