Skill Development Council (SDC) and the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) arranged a one-day workshop on 'Skill Development for Entrepreneur-ship' here on Thursday.
Experts and representatives of labour and industry including chairman SDC Mian Tajammal Hussain, convenor WEBCOP Iftikhar Mahmood Randhawa, Principal Hailey College of Banking and Finance, Professor Dr Khawaja Amjad Saeed, convenor LCCI Standing Committee on Labour & Productivity, Tahir Jawed Malik and others spoke on the occasion.
Speakers were of the opinion that entrepreneur-ship is need of the hour and business would grow in Pakistan after the entrepreneurial skills are developed among the business community.
The entrepreneurial skills will be helpful in reducing unemployment and alleviating poverty, apart from enabling the country to compete in the WTO regime, they added.
Convenor LCCI Standing Committee on Labour & Productivity, Tahir Javed Malik speaking on this occasion said that in an increasingly globalised economy, the importance of entrepreneur-ship has increased manifold.
In his opinion, entrepreneur-ship is not an easy task but an art aimed at fulfilling the needs through a well-managed process resulting in financial benefits for entrepreneur and better quality of life for the recipients.
He praised the role of Skill Development Council and others for not only creating awareness about the need of skill development of entrepreneurs but also asking business sector to pay heed on learning for growth and prosperity through generating such ideas.
Chairman SDC, Mian Tajammal Hussain, said that entrepreneurs are widely recognised as the prime-movers of economic development; the people who translate ideas in to action, we can also say that an entrepreneur is a person who has the ability to scan and identify opportunities and implement successful action to utilised the opportunities.
As the government has implemented a wide-ranging set of strategies to encourage youth to initiate their own small business, it is need of the hour that entrepreneur-ship development should primarily be aimed at youth in technical training institutes.
Principal Hailey College of Banking & Finance, Dr Khawaja Amjad Saeed gave a detailed presentation on changing global scenario, opportunities, challenges, formation of clusters and expected output from clusters.
For the entrepreneurs there are opportunities in agriculture, industry and service sector.
Iftikhar Mahmood Randhawa stressed the need for developing the skill and producing the entrepreneurs rather than typical conventional businessmen.
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