SIALKOT: President Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Major (R) Mansoor Ahmed has said that the Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Apprenticeship Ordinance 1962 and Apprenticeship Rules 1966 is half century old law and this law has lost his own value with time.
Mansoor said the TEVTA officials are forcibly compelling to factory owners on behalf of this decayed law for appointment of apprentices in factories whereas officials spreading harassment and sending legal notice to factory owners. He said the factory owners are under depressing by the rude attitude of TEVTA officials and they are facing hardships by the TEVTA officials daily visit in their factories.
He said Sialkot is city of export industries and the system of production of these industries is individual of other industries of country. He said the industrialists of Sialkot provide training to labor according to need of their industry whereas the training of government institution is not equal to Sialkot factories fields. He said in Sialkot a traditional procedure is present to train labor and these labors have better chances for promotion. He said a computer operator can make export manager tomorrow and worker can make production incharge tomorrow whereas production of factories increase the financial circumstances can much better of workers after their promotion.
He said that the labor in Sialkot Industry don’t work on permanent basis rather industrialist get their services during export orders on behalf of full or part time. He said that the legal notices of TEVTA can increase problems for industrialists of Sialkot whereas TEVTA officials can not get fruitful results. He said that the harass has been spread in the owners of factories and this harassment can create law and order situation. He said that the SCCI administration has stopped the members of SCCI for any protest against TEVTA but TEVTA should stop issuing of legal notices without any delay.
He said if the TEVA officials will not stop the process of issuing of legal notices then the matter can adopt way of displeasure. He said that the Chairman TEVTA Sheikh Irfan Qaiser should seriously think on this matter and stop the issuance of legal notices to industrialists of Sialkot without any delay, otherwise the industrialists will stop their work and export activities will be flopped.
He said already export is on decline but government is imposing new bans on exporters day by day, therefore, government should take strict action against TEVTA officials and other institutions those are disturbing Siakot industrialists and exporters without any reason.
