LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Labour and Human Resource Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has said that under the Punjab Skills Development Strategy 2018, two million youth would be provided skills training till 2018.
Presiding over a meeting of Skill Development Committee at the P&D auditorium on Tuesday, the minister said that provincial government was striving to impart demand-driven skill training, under its short-and long-term programmes, keeping in view the foreign and local requirements of the industry.
The meeting stressed the importance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for the increasing population of youth and called for permanent and meaningful linkages of public and private sector for production of the skilled workforce in line with the market needs. The minister said that there is greater need and scope to invest in skills programmes, supported by the public sector and backed by industrial demand.
He said that the Punjab Vocational Training Council, PSDF and TEVTA have taken extensive steps to ramp up their capacity and are on track to meet their goals for the next six months training programme.
Chairman Planning & Development Jehanzeb Khan, Secretary Labour Sohail Shehzad, Secretary Livestock Nasim Sadiq, MD PVTC, COO PSDF, CEO TEVTA and representatives of different departments attended the meeting.
