K-P plans training in water resource usage

The programme is being financially assisted by European Union, Germany and Norway

PESHAWAR: Under first ever national technical education and vocational training (TEVT) policy, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has declared Competency Based Training and Assessment (CBT&A) compulsory in all technical and vocational training educational institutions.

The purpose of the decision is to prepare local experts to utilise water resources of the province for installation of micro hydroelectric power plants. K-P Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) and TEVT Sector Support Programme have joined hands to achieve the goal.

The programme is being financially assisted by European Union (EU), Germany and Norway. In this connection, a delegation of Peshawar based journalists visited Balakot Skill Development Centre where they were briefed by Adeel Pathan, a representative of TEVT Support Programme.

The journalists were told that Balakot Skill Development Centre which was completely destroyed in the October 8, 2005 earthquake and it has been operationalised effectively after provision of all facilities.

He said that promotion of technical education would help the province to take benefit of its water resources besides creating employment opportunities for technical experts.

Adeel Pathan said that the present government is not only stressing construction of big dams to minimise energy crisis but is also concentrating generation of local experts of hydel power plants.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 23^rd, 2018.