Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) launches whistle blower policy under which complains regarding corruption, inefficiency and misconduct etc in TEVTA Institutions could be reported through social media, email or letter on which prompt action would be initiated under a defined mechanism.

This was stated by Chairman TEVTA Ali Salman Siddique while addressing a meeting regarding Hunarmand Nojawan in TEVTA Secretariat, here Wednesday, which was also attended by COO Akhtar Abbas Bharwana. Ali said that anyone who had a complaint could send it through social media, email or letter along with complete details and evidence for facilitating meaningful action on it and declared that the name of the complainant would be kept confidential as a matter of policy. The meeting was informed that action on a complaint of misconduct regarding a TEVTA Official belonging to an Institution in Kamalia has already been initiated. Chairperson TEVTA said that teachers are respectable for us as they have a leading role in accomplishment of mission assigned to TEVTA and we are taking all possible steps for ensuring their rights and facilitation but corruption, inefficiency or misconduct would not be tolerated under any circumstances.

The meeting was also informed that TEVTA Officials and others can attend the Open Court of Chairperson TEVTA held every Friday in TEVTA Secretariat where they can have an audience with him and handover their complaints to him directly for ensuring prompt action on complaints. In his concluding remarks Ali Salman Siddique said that TEVTA Punjab was pursuing its new vision of running demand driven courses, ensuring jobs and entrepreneurial skills for its trainees and was striving its best for achieving these goals under the Hunarmand Nojawan Program under which training and skills will be provided in different trades to an additional one Lac students.