Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) will train 32,000 unemployed youth free of cost across the province of the Punjab. Classes of 2nd phase of six months duration 44 employable trades will be started from next month at selected TEVTA Institutes. Thirty thousand youth has already been trained in first phase of the said free of cost program. TEVTA has already embarked on a crash program to train more than two lac youth during the year 2016-17.
Chairperson TEVTA Irfan Qaiser Sheikh was addressing a meeting of senior officers to review the progress in this regard at TEVTA Secretariat here on Thursday. Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that unemployed youth has been given training in 44 Industry Demand Driven (IDD) short courses which included 28 courses for boys, six for girls while 10 for both genders.
All these efforts are being made on the directions of Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to train jobless youth of the Punjab so that they could contribute to the economic growth of the country. Chairperson TEVTA further said that all district managers of TEVTA have been instructed to identify new skills with the consultation of concerned local industry so that the said courses could also be introduced immediately. Skilful training and provision of job opportunities to unemployed youth of the Punjab province is the priority of TEVTA.
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