PPDWP approves Rs 560.66 million uplift scheme

The Punjab Provincial Development Working Party (PPDWP) Tuesday accorded approval of development scheme of Youth Affairs, Sports, Archeology & Tourism (YASAT) sector with an estimated cost of Rs. 560.66 million.
The scheme was approved in the 47th meeting of PPDWP of current fiscal year 2016-17 presided over by the Punjab Chairman P&D Board Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan. Provincial Secretary P&D Iftikhar Ali Sahoo, members of the Planning & Development Board, provincial secretaries concerned and others attended the meeting, a spokesman of P&D department said.
The approved development scheme included: 'Chief Minister e-Rozgar Training Program' at the cost of Rs. 560.66 million.
It may be noted that a scheme titled 'Chief Minister's E-Rozgar Scheme' has been included in the Punjab budget for year 2016-17 at a total cost of Rs.883 million. The purpose of this scheme is to establish co-working labs in 36 districts of Punjab as well as training of 10,000 youth to promote employment generation.
Sources in the P&D department told Business Recorder that the government is set to initiate a dedicated 'Domestic Worker Training Programme' to provide better employment opportunities to the home based workers and to meet the needs of working women in the form of trained domestic workers.
The sources also claim that in the budget 2016-17, an allocation of Rs. 3,000 million has been made for Chief Minister's Self Employment Scheme, Rs. 615 million for Punjab Skill Development Project-PIU, Rs.900 million for Punjab Skill Development Fund (PSDF), Rs. 3000 million for TEVTA and Rs.2000 million for PVTC.
Major targets for 2016-17 include: Chief Minister's Self Employment Scheme (CMSES) for disbursement of loans on revolving basis to mitigate the youth unemployment in Punjab, training of 550,000 individuals through Skill Development Programmes / projects of PSDF, TEVTA and PVTC, establishment of Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park, provision of missing facilities in Small Industrial Estates (SIE) in order to enhance colonisation with a special focus on promotion of garment sector, attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) through PBIT comprehensive scheme under World Bank's J&C Programme and Establishment of Strategic Policy Unit for enhancing the latent capacity of the department and attracting investment in Punjab.