Rs900m for technical education in KP budget

Rs900m for technical education in KP budget

ABBOTTABAD June 7: An amount of Rs900 million will be earmarked in the budget for promoting technical education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to help produce valuable workforce.

This was stated by Syed Ahmed Hassan Shah, Minister for Industries and Commerce, while addressing as chief guest a certificate distribution ceremony in Women Readymade Garments and Gaba Handicrafts Training Centre here on Tuesday.

MPA Ms Naeema Nisar, Akhtar Hussain Shah, Managing Director of Small Industries Development Board (SIDB), Peshawar and supervisor of the centre also spoke on the occasion.

Sheikh Nisar Ahmad, president, People’s Labour Bureau, Abbottabad, Haji Iftikhar, president of Small Industrialists Association, Abbottabad and large number of instructors and students of the centre attended the function.

Syed Ahmed Hassan said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had planned to create massive opportunities for self-employment for the youth particularly females.

The provincial government will also set up commerce colleges for women in each district and establish new industrial estates in Abbottabad, Mansehra, Hattar and Ghazi, generating huge economic and employment opportunities, the minister said.

He said the self-employment schemes were the most effective and sustainable source to overcome poverty and unemployment and also strengthen economic condition of the province.

Mr Ahmed Hassan said interest-free loans being given under Bacha Khan Akhpel Rozgar Scheme and Banazir Income Support Programme were launched to achieve the same purpose.

He said the government would initiate more programmes during the next financial year to enable unemployed male and female youth to earn livelihood in a dignified manner.

Describing industrial development as great source of economic growth, Syed Ahmad Hassan said he had changed the entire structure of the SIDB to achieve actual objectives.

The minister announced provision of five sewing machines and a computerised designing unit for the centre and declared the centre as raw material purchase point for all the centres of Hazara Division.

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