Times of Islamabad

National Youth Pulse Portal: PM Imran Khan to launch unprecedented initiative for the youth in Pakistan

National Youth Pulse Portal: PM Imran Khan to launch unprecedented initiative for the youth in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Youth Affairs Programme (PMYAP) has planned tolaunch ‘National Youth Pulse Portal’ a new project to provide employmentopportunity to unemployed and certified skilled youth.

According to a PMYAP official, the Pulse Portal would develop a credibledatabase of qualified and technically trained and certified young manpowerso that requisite job opportunities at local and international levels couldbe made without any long and complex processes.

The database, he said would comprise of information of youth regardingtheir education, skills and work experience where these individuals wouldbe adjusted according to their expertise.

PMYAP for the first time had devised an out of the box strategy to caterthe 65 percent of the country’s total population mainly youth below the ageof 35, he said, adding that after collecting information of the certifiedskilled young labour and experienced youth it would be incorporated andregulated as per their domain.

“There is no direction for the youth of the country to excel in theirprofessional careers as most of the the people waste their abilities andskills in wrong fields of work that are contrary to their educational andprofessional background,” the PMYAP official said.

This portal would help youth provide a pathway to professionally trainedyoungsters to get right jobs and join the field according to their area ofskills,” he added.

The strategies and work plans had been streamlined to start this initiativewith a new idea and with a grassroots level approach to benefit the skilledand potential youth without any discrimination, he said.