Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak empowered the Board of Directors of TEVTA to nominate its vice chairman and recommend its Managing Director to make the body physically, legally operational. The body would be fully independent in its decision making process but these decision making should not be politically motivated, he added.
He was presiding over a meeting of the Board of Directors of TEVTA in CM Secretariat here Monday. Special Assistant to CM for Technical Education Arsahd Umerzai, Secretary Technical Education and board members attended. The members talked about the obstacles and complaints about the proceedings of the board meeting and the capacity issues of the TEVTA employees. The Chief Minister assured that his government would never allow the wastage of resources and time and would ensure that whatever recommended by the board was put on ground in a transparent manner.
He said, he knew how the bureaucratic mindset worked but he would never compromise on our future. This government needed a trained manpower and the institutions established for the purpose would have to deliver. Unfortunately some elements did not deliver and the blame is shifted to others for not delivering. The government would change this mindset. It would overhaul TEVTA to be manned by the best among the best and even the excellent ones. He would never allow political pettifogging in public sector institutions like TEVTA which had been established to prepare and equip our youth for future.
He was annoyed over the declining trend in the performance and efficiency of Vocational and Training Institutes, directing that the monitoring of the institutions would be undertaken by the Air Force which would carry and run different institutions of the technical education side in future. He said education institutions would prepare our future and he would not spare anybody who could not give results.
Pervez Khattak said that his government introduced a set of legislations for transparency and openness in all public dealings. We all cannot shift the blame to others. The political interference and the bureaucratic mindset led to corruption and corrupt practices, with this no nation can move in the 21st century. He was inspired by Imran Khan who changed him and helped him stood for change, he added. He said to have an institution running on professional lines with all out transparency, one just needed to install a honest person at the top and the institution will start giving results up to the mark.
He directed to plan setting up technical and Vocational institutions in all proposed industrial estates through the help of EZDMC and the first one should be setup in Hattar Industrial Estate. He directed against the unauthorized and misuse of vehicles of the institutions. He also empowered the board to make decisions for the promotion of vocational education and help out each other as our youth needed jobs and they should be trained for the future opportunities to be given by the CPEC.