Digital Skill Training Programme approved

As an important step to ensure employability of young graduates, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government has accorded approval to launch a Digital Skills Training Program. Under the initiative, initially, 100,000 young graduates of different categories would be imparted advanced digital training through K-P Information Technology Board.

This approval was accorded at a meeting of K-P Information Technology Board held Wednesday with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair.

Members provincial cabinet Atif Khan and Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, Secretary Science & Technology and information technology Matiullah Khan, Secretary Information Arshad Khan, Managing Director K-P IT Board Ali Mahmoud and others attended the meeting.

Briefing about various aspects of the initiative, the forum was informed that the K-P Digital Skills Training Program would be implemented with an estimated cost of Rs5 billion under which different digital skills courses of three to six month duration would be arranged for graduates.

It was further informed that under the program, youth would be imparted digital training in accordance with the needs of local and international markets in the different sectors of information and communication technology to enhance their employability in the online markets.

Besides offering employment opportunities, scholarships and nano degrees would be awarded to the successful candidates. Briefing about the three different levels of the program, it was revealed that under the intermediate level digital skills, 60,000 youth would be trained whereas 20,000 youth would get training under advanced level digital sills. Similarly, rest of the youth would be imparted training courses in the third level of the program named nano-degree.

Under the intermediate level digital skills, training in web development, graphic designing, animation, digital marketing and e-commerce would be imparted.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 10^th, 2022.