Enhancing production: Trained manpower could help generate $100b

Chamber desires greater decision-making role in vocational training.

FAISALABAD: Trained manpower will not only increase our production quality but would also help generate $100 billion per annum, said Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) President Engineer Rizwan Ashraf.

While talking to Berhard Becker, an international expert who visited FCCI earlier on behalf of GIZ, Rizwan said that FCCI had close interaction with Technical and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) and the Punjab Vocational Council (PVTC).

“But our role is just advisory in nature. Chambers should be involved in the decision-making process for the preparation of curriculum, skill standards and need-based training programmes,” he said.



“Faisalabad has 85 composite units, 30,000 shuttle-less looms, 0.2 million power looms (standard and auto) working in an unorganised sector. In addition to training manpower in 250 textile processing and 125 sizing units, we must try to cater to their HR needs as well.

“The city has a lot of progressive industrial units fully complying with international standards, but a lot needs to be done to organise the sector, “he remarked. Responding to queries raised by the German expert, he said that a pilot project like Germany-Pakistan Training Initiative (GPATI) should be initiated and the Chamber is willing to provide all necessary assistance for it.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2014.

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