TEVTA, BSP sign MoU

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Technical and Vocational Training Authority and the Bulleh Shah Packaging to increase employment opportunities and capacity-building programmes through training empowerment.
"The training programmes will be conducted at the Government Technical Training Institute in Kasur, the Government College of Technology on the Railway Road in Lahore and the Government College of Technology in Multan as pilot project and later on these courses will be initiated at other locations as per industry demand," said Technical and Vocational Training Authority Chairperson Irfan Qaiser Sheikh as he signed the agreement with Bulleh Shah Packaging Private Limited Chief Executive Officer Ali Aslam on Friday.
Chairperson Sheikh briefing participants said, "Six or eight hundred students will be trained through the said programme annually. TEVTA [the Technical and Vocational Training Authority], in collaboration with BSP [the Bulleh Shah Packaging] will offer different training programmes. These training programmes will be offered to new employees including the Basic Industry Induction Course, On machine Specific Trainings, Value Added Courses for DAE Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical (Refresher course after employed) as well as for I & II years certificate. They will be developed by TEVTA in consultation with Industry. Further TEVTA will also develop demand driven courses relevant with the Packaging Industry and also provide stipend to the trainees during training period.
The curricula for the training will be jointly developed by TEVTA and BSP as per requirement of the industry. Examination and certification will be done under the supervision of the TEVTA by the Punjab Board of Technical Education and the Trade Testing Board."
Bulleh Shah Packaging Chief Executive Officer Ali Aslam said his company would be responsible for admissions, on-job training on the factory premises where TEVTA's infrastructure was unavailable according to the requirement. He said his company would also responsible for placement of the pass outs. "The BSP intends to arrange training of trainers and will provide master trainers for the purpose. It will provide training consumables and equipment at subsidised rates if specifically required for this training." Those also present were his counterpart, Jawad Ahmad Qureshi, Officers of the Bulleh Shah Packaging Hakan Molden, Asma Javaid, Ambreen Waheed, Shahid Hafeez, Muhammad Waseem, and Ahmed Rafique, authority Officers Akhtar Abbas Bharwana, Abdul Qayyum, Mustafa Kamal Pasha, Maqsood Ahmed, Amer Hasan, Ayesha Qazi and Sarfraz Anwar.