New opportunities: Providing jobs to the youth is a priority, says CM

More than 0.1 million unemployed youths were provided training.

KARACHI:


More than 0.1 million unemployed youths were provided training in various trades under the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme (YDP), said the Sindh chief minister (CM), Qaim Ali Shah.



While presiding over a joint meeting of the YDP and the Sindh Technical Education Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA) at the CM house, Shah directed all officials to ensure that maximum number of women also participated in the programme.

The STEVTA minister Abdul Salam Thaheem and managing director Abdul Wahid Uqaili, Aajiz Dhamrah, YDP provincial coordinator Karim Bakhsh Siddiqui, and other YDP members attended the meeting.

Shah said that the current government is striving hard to provide job opportunities to the unemployed youths in every sector. Following the party policy to end poverty and unemployment from the society, the government has started various development programmes. Earlier, Siddiqui and Uqaili said that 104,174 individuals have been trained so far.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2012.
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