INP
LAHORE
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar formally inaugurated the “Chief Minister Skill Youth Programme” for the youth of the province under the auspices of TEVTA Punjab at Expo Center on Saturday. A substantial amount of Rs.1.5 billion has been allocated for “Chief Minister Skill Youth Programme”. Initially this programme will offer 56 latest and modern courses according to market needs to 1.5 lac youth. The chief minister also inaugurated the exhibition organized under “Chief Minister Skill Youth Programme” at Expo Center.
While visiting different stalls, Usman Buzdar asked from youth about their interest in technical skills. He also took keen interest in the items including robots and other equipment displayed on the stalls.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony, the chief minister said that initially this programme will benefit more than 1.5 lac youth and its scope will be enhanced gradually in four years by including 8.75 lac more youth in this programme. He said that approximately 60 percent of national target of provision of employment would be completed under Punjab Growth Strategy 2023.
He said that “Chief Minister Skill Youth Programme” is a reflective of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision for the youth and an important step towards fulfillment of that promise made with the people by the PTI regarding creating job opportunities. He said that by the grace of Allah Almighty positive results have been surfaced of the economic policies of the government and international rating agencies also validated this fact. He said that joint venture of public private partnership is a proof of successful economic policies of the government. This venture could not become possible as there was no transparency and merit in the past.
Usman Buzdar further stated that CPEC projects are being speedily completed with the cooperation of friend country China. More than 11 projects of Punjab are included in the nine sectors of CPEC. In the context of CPEC “Chief Minister Skilled Youth Programme” is of great significance and need of skilled workers in Punjab for CPEC could only be fulfilled by this programme.
He said that skilled youth is an asset for any state and their role for the development and progress of the country is of great importance. He said that importance of TEVTA will increased with the passage of time. He further maintained that we will have to face challenges of rapidly changing technology. He said that no attention was given in the past to enhance the capability of TEVTA.
He said that Punjab government is working for setting up four technical universities in Punjab. Punjab Tianjin University Lahore and Punjab University of Technology Rasool are providing modern technical training. University of Technology and Mir Chakar Khan Rind University of Technology will be set up in Rawalpindi and DG Khan respectively. BS programmes are being offered to the youth in the institutions supported by TEVTA. Syllabus of technical institutes run under TEVTA is being resigned according to the modern need.
Provincial Minister for Industry Mian Aslam Iqbal, Chairperson TEVTA Ali Salman also addressed the ceremony. Provincial ministers Hashim Jawan Bakhat, Sardar Husnain Bahadur Dreshak, Mohsin Leghari, President PTI Central Punjab Ijaz Chaudhary, Members Punjab Assembly and other concerned officers were also present on the occasion.
