ISLAMABAD: As many as 98,733 youth has so far received skilled development training of various vocational skills from 2014 under Prime Minister’s Youth Skill Development Programme.
These students have completed their training in first three phases of the programme while the 100,000 more would be trained in the next fiscal year i.e 2017-18 under phase IV in two batches.
Under the first phase, 24,831 were trained during the year 2014, while in phase II, 20,392 youngsters passed out in 2015, official sources told APP.
In phase III, 25000 talented persons are inducted to be trained in phase one during this year which started their session from January, official sources told APP.
Under the Phase-IV, they informed that the sectors of Agriculture, Health/Paramedics, Business and IT, Hospitality and Tourism, Media related trades, Fashion and Beauty, Manufacturing industry including, Textile (Home textile fabrics, Garments, Knitwear and Hosiery, Sports Goods and Wears manufacturing, Leather Goods manufacturing, Glass ceramics and Pottery and Surgical instruments manufacturing would be focussed.
They informed that National Training Bureau (NTB) Islamabad is imparting training of trainees and certification to the talented youth.
During 2013-16, 03-months, 06 months, 01 year and 02 years training courses in more than 80 trades were conducted at this center for the development of Human Resource in the country.
More than 25000 trainees were trained in affiliated institutes of NTB. Furthermore, National Staff Training Institute, working under the National Training Bureau trained 836 Instructors/Trainers from various government/semi government agencies during 2013-16.
The skills imparted from the institution included Pedagogic/Teaching Techniques, Managerial Skills, Environmental Health and Safety, Camera/Lighting Techniques, Computer Training, Skill Up-gradation in CNC, PLC, Civil/Quantity Surveyor and First Aid Training. (APP)