Federal Minister for Communication Muhammad Shamim Siddiqui has asked the Construction Machinery Training Institute (CMTI) to make the training courses easy to provide better training to youths to help eradicate unemployment from country.
"Ministry of communication has chalked out a plan to train 5,000 commercial drivers annually to fill the gap of the commercial drivers in industrial and construction", minister said while talking to reporters after inauguration of the civil engineering laboratory in CMTI here on Wednesday.
Siddiqui said that best way to eradicate unemployment and poverty from country is to produce a skilled work force. "We are far behind in skilled work force and industrial and construction sector is being run by untrained drivers and work force", he added.CMTI, he said is doing good job in providing training to youths and making them able to get a good job. This is first institute having a job guarantee before completion of training and we need more institutions like CMTI to generate skilled work force, he added.
He said that Pakistan was facing shortage of the trained commercial drivers and it was decided to train about 5,000 commercial drivers in driving training institutions to fill the gap. He said that these commercial drivers would be utilised in upcoming mega industrial and construction projects.
The minister said that after completion of the Kurakurram Highway, these commercial drivers would play a vital role in building the Pakistan-China communication links.
Siddiqui told reporters that ministry of communication has planned to establish the CMTI in all four provinces of the country to produce a good lot of skilled workforce. "CMTI is only one and people have no approach to this institute. We would expand its jurisdiction to all four provinces to bring more people in this institute", he said.
He asked the CMTI officials to make the training programme and procedures easy in order to help unemployed youth to get admission in this institution.
He also asked them to advertise the training courses in both print and electronic media. "It is not good that our youth sit idle on benches and waist their time and energy on useless activities. We must bring them towards healthy activities", he said.
Earlier, CMTI officials briefed the minister about the training programme being conducted by the institute and the duration and the procedures of admission.
The minister hailed the progress and performance of the institute and lauded its role for eradication of unemployment and production of skilled workforce.
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