The Punjab Vocational Training Council and the Schools Education Department in the Punjab have sealed an agreement to offer IT training to 7,000 youth and equip them with school labs in their evening classes. The announcement came from the provincial Minister for Labour and Human Resource, Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, who chaired a Skill Development Committee meeting with Minister Zakat and Ushr Malik Nadeem Kamran on Monday at the Planning and Development Auditorium.
It emerged that to meet the target of skill training of two billion youths under a short-term skill training programme being operated through the Punjab Skills Development Strategy 2018 to empower the youth for their demand-based technical training and enhance labour export to the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, all necessary steps had been taken with co-ordination of various departments.
Minister Sarwar said, "This initiative by the Punjab government will not only increase the gross domestic product contribution of the province but also increase opportunities for employment in the local industry and international labour market." It also emerged that 30,000 village people would be trained in vaccination and animal insemination for better livestock growth and export activities.