Khyber Pakhtunkhwa launches Rs 900 million skill development project for youth

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Industries, Syed Ahmad Hussein Shah, said that the provincial government has launched Rs 900 million's project for provision of technical training to the youth of the province. Under this project, he said, youth will be sent to other countries for training.
The provincial minister was addressing cheques' distribution ceremony under Waseela-e-Haq Programme of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Abbottabad on Saturday. He on this occasion distributed cheques of Rs 20 million amongst 84 women of Hazara. The provincial minister said that BISP has been launched under the manifesto of PPP and Vision of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto to enable the women to stand on their own feet adding that millions of women are taking benefit of the scheme.
Syed Ahmad Hussein Shah said that the government is following the slogan of the provision of bread, clothes and houses to the people. He said that the leadership of PPP had rendered the sacrifices of their blood for the nation and country for keeping alive democracy and guaranteeing rights to the people.
He said that the process of hatching conspiracies against PPP remained continued in every period, but they never bothered. He said that the PPP has an honour that it had resolved big problems faced by the people and in present period of the government 18th Constitutional Amendment was passed which paved way for the devolution of 10 ministries and will usher in an era of progress and development in the provinces.
The provincial minister for industries said that under the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award the province has received an extra amount of Rs 22 billion, which is being spent on the people-welfare-oriented projects and will benefit the future generations of the province.
He said that several welfare programmes have been launched under BISP, while the department of industries has initiated a scheme of the provision of a loan up to Rs 2.5 million for standing unemployed youth on their own feet and their economic stability.
For the resolution of the problems of load shedding and meeting the deficiency of electricity, he said the provincial government has proposed initiating work on the hydro-power projects, which will cost Rs 50 billion and the country will be brought out of energy crisis in a period of five to six years. He said that industrialisation will be promoted in the province.
He said that devoted party workers are the real assets of the party and no conspiracy against the president and prime minister will succeed in their presence. He cautioned the party workers against the conspiracies of the conspirators as such elements always remain out to divert the attention of PPP from the service of the people.