Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani approved, in principle, the re-allocation of various technical institutions and organisations under the administrative control of the Professional and Technical Ministry, Government of Pakistan during a briefing given by the Ministry here on Monday at the PM's House.
The creation of this Ministry reflects the vision of the Prime Minister and the democratic government making Pakistan a developed and prosperous country by realising full potential of its citizens through demand driven training and skill development, added the Secretary.
This re-allocation, the Secretary stated, would be instrumental in providing technical and vocational training to millions of youth of Pakistan who would contribute in the country's economy and help in the export of trained skilled manpower to foreign countries, making substantial contributions to the foreign remittances back home.
It may be mentioned that while there is a big market for trained manpower in the international job market, our unskilled and semi-skilled manpower is either being laid off or their prospects of jobs drying up completely. The Minister explained that it would establish solid infrastructure for promoting required training in the fields of electricity, plumbing, refrigeration, driving, masonry nursing, for both male and female.
The Prime Minister directed that the programme relating to non-formal education and mass literacy campaign, launched by the National Commission for Human Development and National Education Foundation should be continued. The employees of the two programmes will continue to receive their salaries from the Federal Government, the Prime Minister directed.
Those who attended the meeting included Minister for Professional and Technical Training Syed Riaz Hussain Pirzada, Minister of State for Professional and Technical Training Sardar Shahjehan Yousaf, Secretary Ministry of Professional and Technical Training, Dr Nafeesa Shah, Chairperson (MNA) NCHD and senior officials of the Ministry.-PR