Technology Upgradation and Skill Development Company (TUSDEC) has trained a pool of 1,325 students of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in demand-driven technical trades with an aim to support gainful income generation opportunities.
The students completed their training in the first phase of six-month duration under the European Union (EU) sponsored project of Supporting TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) sector in Pakistan, said the TUSDEC spokesperson here on Sunday.
He said the TUSDEC was striving to increase the access of 12,000 KP/FATA residents to TVET programmes through garnering support from the private sector in market driven traditional and non-traditional trades for sustainable livelihood prospects and added that trades were deduced as a result of a panoptic baseline assessment study and stakeholders' dictum for social equity and regional prosperity. In pursuance of the project objective, the TUSDEC has engaged 25 training institutes from KP and FATA to commence six-month duration training programmes. These associates have trained a pool of 1,325 students in electrician, land survey, AautoCad and quantity survey trades. Subsequent to the trainings, the students appeared in the examination conducted by TTB (Trade Testing Board) and the entire examination process was proctored by TUSDEC-EU and TTB team for transparency, he maintained..