TEVTA initiates skills programmes for youth

Aims to create employment opportunities for youth of K-P

PESHAWAR:

The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) has taken various initiatives to bring the youth of K-P and newly merged tribal districts into the mainstream of development by imparting training in contemporary technical education.

“The main objective is to uplift the youth, prepare them to meet challenges of the current world and create new employment opportunities,” said a Tevta official while talking to APP.

He said various projects had been initiated by the authority to emancipate the youth and make them self-reliant.

Construction of polytechnic institutes has been started in the areas of merged districts including Orakzai and Miranshah and frontier regions Darra Adam Khel. All these educational facilities will be completed by coming June.

He said staff deficiency had been overcome in all the polytechnic institutes and vocational centres of Tevta and the teaching staff would also be provided needed training under the Accelerated Implementation programme.

He stated that a female vocational centre was functioning in Bajaur and every district would be given a female vocational centre.

Polytechnic institutes are providing diploma-level technical education to the youth in various fields including civil, electrical, mechanical, mining and telecom. The training would not only enable students to start their setup but it would also open new vistas of growth for them. Industries, Commerce and Technical Education Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has also initiated a Special Emphasis Program (SEP) for the youth.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 22^nd, 2020.

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