Internship programme may reduce unemployment

Industrial productivity will also get a boost, say businessmen.

The Punjab government’s internship programme will help give a considerable boost to industrial productivity besides ensuring provision of manpower to the manufacturing sector, businessmen say.

In a statement issued here on Friday, Pakistan Industrial and Traders Association Front (PIAF) Chairman Malik Tahir Javaid said the internship programme, which had been launched for the first time in the province on a massive scale, would help the industry hire required people and also bring down the graph of unemployment in the country.



“The interns would have to show their best abilities to win a place in the job market,” he remarked.

Javaid pointed out that all over the developed world students got job only after completing internship in the area of their studies and that was the reason that these countries were economically strong.

He urged the interns not to waste time and focus on their work as their work record would enable them to carve a place in the job market.

The PIAF chairman said the internship programme would have far-reaching impact on the economy as the country was in need of rightly skilled people and the programme was a step in the right direction.

He was of the view that the importance of the programme had increased manifold in the wake of the GSP Plus status granted by the European Union as a rise in industrial production would create new job opportunities and the programme would overcome this shortage.

By welcoming the internship programme, he said, the private sector was supporting the government’s endeavours aimed at reviving the economy of the country.

At the same time, he also asked the government to look into the energy situation as a widening demand and supply gap was creating problems for the economy. 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 3^rd, 2014.

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