ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Youth Affairs Program (PMYAP) has planned tolaunch “National Internship Programme” to deal with the issue ofunemployment of youth in Pakistan.
According to an official the main aim of the said program was to improvethe employability of educated youth to make them conomically independent.
He said that the program will be a joint initiative of government,universities and industry to channelize the energy of the educated youth inthe right direction.
He said that under-graduate and post-graduate students would be adjusted indifferent departments and industries according to their education ansskills.
He said that students will be selected from different educationalinstitutions and they would be paid stipend during internship time period.
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He said that for under-graduates the time period of internship would be sixmonths however for post graduates time period would be one year.He said that this internship would help to prepare the internee to be ableto start regular job with a reasonable learning curve position.
The employing organization participating in internship will support thecause of nation building and also run the program as a seamless process ofregular hiring, he said.
