Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) is successfully providing latest skilled training to unemployed youth in its 16 service centers located at different cities of province of the Punjab. The trainees of these centers are technically sound like trainees enrolled in other TEVTA Institute. Its graduates also enjoy real factory floor environment by working on actual production lines maintained at Service Centers.
It was stated by Chairperson TEVTA Irfan Qaiser Sheikh while addressing the officer to review the progress of service centers of TEVTA in various cities of Punjab. Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that Service Centres are best model providing Technical Training, Advisory Services & common facilitation platform in their relevant industrial cluster prevailing in the province in the field of Technical Vocational and Educational Training Sector. To avoid procedural bottlenecks in the public procurement process, TEVTA has established separate procurement cell to centralise the TEVTA procurement of all field offices to ensure more transparency & efficiency. Chairperson TEVTA further said that TEVTA management aims to increase efficiency by catering the justified needs within available resources to get optimum utilisation of public money.
Service Centers are successfully running in various cities of Punjab Province including Wood Working Service Centre Gujarat, Rawalpindi and Kot Addu, Hosiery Knitting Training Centre Faisalabad, Govt. Institute of Leather Technology Gujranwala, Cutlery & Small Tools Industry Center Wazirabad, Light Engineering Service Centre Gujranwala, Institute of Ceramics Gujarat, Govt. Wool Spinning & Weaving Cum Training Centre Jang, Leather Service Centre Kasur, Centre for Agricultural Machinery Institute (CAMI) Mian Channu, Ricce Milling Muridkay, Institute of Textile Technology Faisalabad, Govt. College of Technology (Glass & Ceramics) Shahdara, Pak German Institute of Co-operative Agriculture Multan, Institute of Blue Pottery Development Multan and Metal Industry Development Centre Sialkot, he concluded.