Task force discusses strategy to send 0.5m skilled workers abroad
Orders initiation of training for 84,000 youth in KP from next week.
PESHAWAR: The recently-constituted Task Force on Technical Education and Skill Development met here on Monday to thrash out a line of action to implement the strategy of the provincial government to export 0.5 million trained human resource to various countries.
The meeting with Caretaker Chief Minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah in the chair decided to start crash courses on emergency basis to impart technical and digital skill training to the youth as per the demand of international market.
The meeting further decided to formally launch a digital skill development program under the Information Technology Board next week. Under the program, more than 84,000 youth would be trained in various digital skills.
The chief minister directed the concerned authorities to immediately release the required funds to the KPIT board for the purpose.
The meeting reviewed progress on the decisions made in the last meeting of the task force. It was also decided to enhance the allocated seats in the nursing colleges of the province to produce trained nurses to be exported to foreign countries and the concerned quarters were directed for necessary steps in this regard. The initiative is aimed at producing at least 50,000 trained nurses annually.
The chief minister also directed the authorities concerned to give priority to the youth of the newly-merged districts in skill development trainings as these areas were affected by terrorism and thus need of special attention.
It was also decided in the meeting to revamp the existing system of technical and vocational training to align it with the needs of modern era.
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