Chairperson Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta), Saeed Ahmad Alvi has said that availability of skilled manpower is not only a key to success for industrial development in Pakistan but also for individual socio-economic prosperity and poverty alleviation in the society.
He was addressing a meeting of all principals, District Managers and Zonal Manager of North Zone in Tevta office, here on Friday. Alvi said that keeping in view the market trends and demand of local industry, course contents of need based technologies of D.A.E. and diploma of vocational training have been revised. Tevta, in consultation with the private sector, has developed an elaborated roadmap in line with the policy guidelines of the government. We have sought collaboration with foreign donor agencies like Jica, Unido, GTZ, DFID, Unesco to modernise Tevta institutes for training manpower according to the requirement of local employers and global needs.
He said they are hopeful to work with USAID in Pakistan for training of our people in different fields of agriculture and allied. They are also actively working with Unesco for Curriculum Development and Planning Co-operation to modernise our curricula. Tevta is offering three-year diploma and short-term IT-related courses in collaboration with City and Guilds International UK and Microsoft international, he added.
He said that Tevta is making full efforts to introduce market-oriented courses at its institutes to train the youth in employable skills. They have also developed a system for provision of jobs to the passing out according to their learning. Maximum numbers of our pass outs are adjusted in the local industry. A handsome number of Tevta-trained youth is absorbed in the national and multi-national corporations, engaged in overseas operations. In this way, Tevta is helping poor skilled youth to become a useful member of society. It is being done by utilising available facilities efficiently at the existing Tevta institutions across the Province of the Punjab, he maintained.
Tevta chairperson urged the District Managers and Principals to make full co-ordination with the members of business community of their area to identify their needs and requirements for bringing revolutionary changes in the functioning of Tevta. We are making efforts for producing trained workforce in accordance with the needs and demands of the industrial sector of the province, he added.
Expressing his views about the performance of the Tevta Institutes, he said, radical steps are being taken to improve the working of Tevta Institutes. Administrative staff would be reduced while qualified people would be accommodated in Tevta for producing quality results in future and work on this programme would soon be started, he concluded.
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