14 districts of Punjab: Tevta gives security guard training to unemployed youth: chairperson
Over 2,000 unemployed youth has got security guard training from Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Institutes in 14 cities across the province of the Punjab. This was stared by Chairperson TEVTA Irfan Qaiser Sheikh while addressing the officers at TEVTA Secretariat to start second phase of security guard training program.
He also said that certified trained young security guards will get jobs at national and international level. At present mostly security agencies have recruited retired army personnel or untrained youth and they were unable to meet the increasing demands of the security guards. He said now, security companies are contacting TEVTA to offer jobs to trained youth on priority basis.
Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that TEVTA with the collaboration of Home Department, Police, Civil Defence, Rescue 1122 and Elite Police Training School designed the curricula with the objectives to improve observation, detection and reporting skills, equipped guards with knowledge of handling and firing the weapon, groom the guards and enhance their interpersonal skills and acquainted with new technological advancement in security skills.
He also said new session of this training program will be started from December 19 at TEVTA Institutes in Lahore, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Attock, Sheikhpura, Faisalabad, Mianwali, Multan, Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rahim Yar Khan in which a group of 2000 youth will be trained.
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