PVTC to help alleviate poverty in Punjab

08 Dec, 2004

Chairman Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC) Sikandar Mustafa Khan, while appreciating the efforts being made by the PVTC Board of Management Vocational Training Institute (VTI) Multan with regard to widening the network of VTIs in southern Punjab, has expressed the hope that the dream of poverty alleviation would become true in the province soon. In a meeting with President Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC) Board of Management VTI Multan, Khawaja Muhammad Owais, chairman PVTC, asked him to keep up the pace of work and assured all out support in this regard.
Khawaja Owais informed the PVTC chief that the PVTC Board of Management VTI Multan would soon set up two more institutes in Multan in order to meet the rising demand of vocational training. He further said that the number of pass-outs from the VTI Multan has reached 2,000 mark till date.
He said the PVTC Board of Management VTI Multan has already established VTIs in Shujaabad, Rahimyar Khan and Muzaffargarh and all of them were operating successfully. A large number of pass-outs are performing duties in leading organisations, including PIA, Nadra, banking sector etc.
The PVTC Board of Management VTI Multan has also opened a vocational training institute at Women Jail Multan where the prisoners are being provided training in trades, like dress making, embroidery, beautification and literacy, he added.

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