Tevta to train unemployed youths

LAHORE

Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) will impart free-of-cost training to 32,000 unemployed youths across the Punjab province.

According to a press release, the second phase classes of six months duration 44 employable trades will be started from next month at selected Tevta institutes.

In the first phase, 32,000 youths have already been trained.  Tevta has already embarked on a crash programme to train more than 200,000 youths during the year 2016-17.  Chairperson Tevta Irfan Qaiser Sheikh stated this while addressing a meeting of senior officers to review the progress in this regard at Tevta secretariat.

Chief Operating Officer Jawad Ahmed Qureshi, Tevta officers, including Akhtar Abbas Bharwana, Aamer Aziz, Rao Rashid, Azhar Iqbal Shad, Mustafa Kamal Pasha, Sarfraz Anwar and others were also present on the occasion.Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that unemployed youths had 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 Shahbaz Sharif to train jobless youths of the province so that they could contribute to the economic growth of the country. 

Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that all district managers of Tevta had been instructed to identify new skills with the consultation of the local industry concerned so that the courses could also be introduced immediately.  Skillful training and provision of job opportunities to unemployed youths of the Punjab province is the priority of Tevta, he concluded.