The chairman of Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA), Irfan Qaiser Sheikh has said that the collaboration of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and TEVTA has provided technical education to the youth of Punjab as per Japanese standards.
While talking to a delegation of JICA in the supervision of Mayumi Miyata here on Tuesday at TEVTA Secretariat, chairman TEVTA Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that JICA provided Rs 640 million aid for the students of Diploma in Associate Engineering (DAE) which eventually raised the standard of technical education. Machinery worth Rs 105 million was also handed over to Government Technical College Faisalabad.
Irfan Qaiser told that syllabus of technical education was also reviewed by the Japanese experts. During this collaboration it was focused that the quality and standard of education should remain as per Japanese standards, he said. He claimed that 90 percent of machinery has been arrived and the remaining will arrive soon.
Irfan also said that TEVTA utilized this fund in manner that so far 200 instructors and 5000 students have been benefited. However, government technical colleges of 13 districts including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Gujranwala Sialkot, Sahiwal Bahawalpur and others. He also told that a special attention is also being drawn towards colleges located in South Punjab. Chairman TEVTA said, "We want to enhance this collaboration in future as well." Recently our seven officials got training in Japan but now we want students to go to Japan for further training and studies, he said.
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