Tevta to send 12 trainers to Germany

LAHORE

Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) with the collaboration of Punjab Energy Efficiency and Conservation Agency (PEECA), Energy Department and the Punjab government will send its 12 master trainers to Germany to get 45 days advance training on Solar PV Technology. 

In this regard, an agreement was signed between Tevta and PEECA here at Tevta secretariat.

Tevta Chief Operating Officer Jawad Ahmad Qureshi and PEECA Managing Director Muhammad Qasim Khokhar signed the MoU. Tevta Chairperson Irfan Qaiser Sheikh, Energy Secretary Asad-ul-Rehman Gillani, Tevta officers Akhtar Abbas Bharwana, Amir Aziz, Azhar Iqbal Shad, Umer Farooq, Aisha Qazi, Waheed Asghar, Sarfraz Anwar and others were also present on this occasion.

According to a press release issued here Friday, Irfan Qaiser Sheikh while addressing the participants of the ceremony said that master trainers would be sent next month to get advance training on Solar PV Technology from Hessen Institute, Germany. PEECA will bear the expenditure of foreign training of master trainers.

This selected group will further train enrolled trainees after the completion of their course.

After successful arrival, other groups of Tevta teachers will also be sent later to Europe to get such training. 

Tevta Chairperson said Tevta had already started free six months Solar Photovoltic System Power for generation course.

This course is successfully running at Tevta institutes located at Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Sahiwal, Sheikhupura, Kasur, Taxila, Chakwal, Sargodha, Attock, Bahawalpur, Multan, Rahimyar Khan, Bahawalnagar, Khanewal and Muzaffargarh to train 3,000 youths during a year. No fee is charged from trainees while Rs1,000 stipend is also being given to each trainee per month.

The qualification of this course is matric and middle with electrician course.

The training course would help to boost the image of Tevta in the whole province of Punjab as it is providing latest technological skill at grass root level in the province.

Tevta has initiated the project in accordance with the policy of the Punjab government to meet the ever increasing energy needs, he concluded.