Training centres

LAHORE
Provincial Minister for Labour and Human Resource Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has said that Punjab government is holding skill development training courses under public private partnership for capacity building of industrial workers and harmonizing Pakistani workforce with the demand of international labour market.
Modern model training centres are being set up in Sheikhupura and Gujranwala for this purpose.
He said this while presiding over a meeting for reviewing progress on a coordinated project started at an amount of 5.2 billion rupees on the direction of Chief Minister Punjab for eliminating child and bonded labour at Social Security Head Office. Secretary Labour Ishrat Ali, DG Labour Saleem Hussain, Project Director Dr. Javed Gul and other officers attended the meeting.
Raja Ashfaq Sarwar told the meeting the Punjab government was taking vigorous steps for eliminating child labour including bonded labour at brick kilns, rehabilitation of labourers, economic independence of affected families, effective coordination between concerned departments and skill development training project were a step towards the direction. Project Director Javed Gill said that skill development training would be provided to labourers at Sheikhupura and Gujranwala model training centres for meeting demands of international market. Raja Ashfaq Sarwar said that besides survey of child labour with the technical cooperation of local and foreign institutions, a process of reforms and reporting system and effective monitoring continued.