FAISALABAD. As many as 13,500 industrial units registered with Skilled Labour Marketing Information System (SLMIS) web portal of Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) are getting appropriate, suitable and skilled manpower as per their demand through this free service, said Waheed Asghar Director SLMIS/Placement cell of TEVTA.
He was addressing the industrialists in Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI).
He said that CV’s of 74,400 skilled workers have so far been uploaded on this web portal. “Out on these 2,756 belong to Faisalabad”, he said and added that TEVTA is producing sizable number of skilled workers in different trades while the syllabus of these courses have also been updated in according to the needs of these industrial units.
He said that the number of registered industrial units from Faisalabad is dismally poor and TEVTA is planning to launch an awareness campaign so that maximum industrialists could register themselves on this web portal and get the free facility of haunting appropriate skilled workers without any hassle.
Continuing, he said that this web portal is also helping passed out students of TEVTA institutions in getting jobs according to their skills. He said that these skilled workers would definitely play a major role in improving the productivity as well as quality of the products produced in these institutions. Thus they will also help in curtailing the cost of doing business, he observed.
Chaudhary Muhammad Nawaz President Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) said that Pakistan is included in top ten countries of the world as regards foreign remittances. He said that the labor force is increasing with a ratio of 3.2 percent per annum. We must equip this force with best technical and vocational skills. If this force was properly managed and exported we could enhance our foreign remittances up to 20 Billion dollars per annum within a short span of 3 years.
He said that TEVTA is running 1456 technical institutions across the province, out of which only 12 are housed in Faisalabad district which are insufficient to cater the needs of skilled workers of around 20 thousand industrial units of this city.
He said that TEVTA should send its students to industrial units during summer vacations to work as volunteers and get practical experience in their specific trade. “In unorganized sector a huge number of skilled workers are available who have been trained under traditional master-disciple relationship”, he said and added that TEVTA should test their skills and issue proper certificates so that they could also get jobs in reputed industrial units of organized sector.
