Precious sector: Gems and Jewellery industry trains workforce

Local company takes initiative to create skilled labour across the country.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Gems and Jewellery Development Company (PGJDC) has established Gems and Jewellery Training and Manufacturing Centres (GJTMCs) in different cities to provide gems and jewellery training and manufacturing facilities. PGJDC is providing quality education to stakeholders in the gems and jewellery industry enabling them to compete effectively in the international market. An official of the company said the gems and jewellery sectors of the country though instilled with great talent, have been lagging behind in the modern education and techniques.

GJTMCs are offering the facility of an ideal learning environment where the competent faculty members of PGJDC work hard to transfer knowledge to the participants of the training courses. “PGJDC has set up its GJTMCs in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Gilgit” the official said. The prime motive of GJTMCs is to upgrade technology and skills in mining, gems processing and jewellery manufacturing through training and provision of required equipment and facilities, the official added.

Besides this, GJTMCs have diversified their line of courses in jewellery manufacturing by introducing training programmes of Patwaand Soumak, which run parallel to the traditional casting, stone setting and bench-work courses, to well round the students in jewellery craft.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 15^th, 2013.

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