Provincial Minister for Labour and Human Resources Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has said that Punjab government is ensuring to provide honourable jobs to the youth by imparting technical education to them for their labour export in the international market. Besides local market, efforts have also been started on emergency basis for meeting the demand of skilled labour of Qatar and UAE.
He expressed these views during his visit to Aman Tech Institute set up in Korangi along with Provincial Minister for Industries Chaudhry Muhammad Shafique and delegation of senior officers from technical training institutes of Punjab. MD Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC) Sajid Naseer, Manager Operations Tevta Colonel Hamid Ghani, Country Manager of City and Guilds Asad Ali Warraich, CEO Aman Tech Institute Ahmar Iqbal, experts of Aman Tech Institute Zaheer Hassan, Mustafa Bhaiwala and Ali Sani were also present on the occasion.
Raja Ashfaq Sarwar said that Punjab government is also paying special attention to setting up of state of the art technical institutes as well as upgrading existing training courses in public sector technical and vocational institutions. Raja Ashfaq said that the aim of making maximum number of youth skilful is to alleviate poverty so that the menace of terrorism could be eliminated. He said it is the vision of Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif that skill training to the youth should be provided according to international standard so that they could get better job opportunities abroad.
He said that elimination of unemployment is a national issue and government and private sector will have to resolve this issue jointly. Raja Ashfaq said that Aman Tech is a unique institute and the purpose of our visit is to review its departments, courses and syllabus so that such institutions could be set up in collaboration with government and private sector in Punjab for which a consultative meeting with the experts will soon be held. CEO Amar Iqbal of Aman Tech Institute during a briefing told that about five thousand students is imparted training each year in this institute and they get jobs in auto mobile, textile and pharmaceutical industries. He said that youth are also imparted training in motor vehicle, engineering, welding, pipe works, metal machining, air-conditioning & refrigerating and electrical engineering. Earlier, the delegation visited various sections, laboratories and workshops of Aman Tech Institute and appreciated the discipline, courses, modern machinery and training methods.