MULTAN - At least 1,50,000 young citizens will be imparted technical education and skills training under programmes launched by the National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (NAVTEC). This was disclosed by the camp in-charge of Prime Minister Camp office in Multan Syed Ahmad Mujtaba Gillani while addressing the participants of a briefing session on NAVTEC here at Multan Chamber on Saturday.
He added that the youth formed 60 percent of total population and we needed to cash this precious human capital. He said that different internal and external problems like flood, terrorism and financial crisis did not let Pakistan move on path of progress. “But the incumbent government is determined to break this block. A number of new programmes are being launched to put the country on path of progress and prosperity,” he added.
He said that realizing the importance of skill-based education, the federal government set up NAVTEC office in Multan to eliminate poverty and unemployment through skill development. He disclosed that the NAVTEC had declared South Punjab a priority area where a need based training programme was launched. To a query on renaming Emerson College and supply of needed equipment to Nishtar Burn Unit, he said that although both issues were provincial subjects, yet he would talk to the Prime Minister.
Speaking on this occasion, senior vice president of Multan Chamber Kh Muhammad Hussain stressed upon the NAVTEC to introduce new courses with the consultation of Multan Chamber. He said that the Chamber could offer space to NAVTEC for establishing a help desk at its premises while seminars could also be held in the hall.
NAVTEC Multan Deputy Director Dr Mubashir Daha said that the Commission provided technical education to the students near to their homes. He disclosed that the commission had recently inked an agreement with German Development Agency under which the agency would provide two lac Euros for imparting training to 100,000 students. He said that out of 100,000 trainees, at least 30 percent would be women.