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Well, Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema, the Director General of the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission, offers our leaders a really viable plan on how to benefit from the youth bulge fortune which is fast turning into a challenge. Cheema wants politicians to prioritise the skills development sector, highlighting that the commission is providing international standard training in different sectors to a hundred thousand youths annually, making a vast majority financially independent. To cater to the needs of modern era, he says, the commission is also introducing high-end technology courses like mechatronics and robotics.
With its focus on lifting the quality of education to the global standards, strengthening links with industry and enhancing international collaboration, the commission is on the right track in its efforts to cut unemployment — and thereby the unrest and discontent among the youth — and promote material and economic advancement. It’s time for our rulers to supplement these efforts.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 13th, 2018.
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