ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP): National Vocational and Technical
Training Commission (NAVTTC) has provided skills development
training to more than 250,000 youths since its establishment.
Presently, the NAVTTC has initiated six month free of cost
technical and professional training programme, through which 50,000
youths would be given skills development training in demand driven
courses, an official of the NAVTTC told APP here on Tuesday.
Annually, a total of 100,000 youths were being trained under
the governments’ youth skills development programme, he remarked.
He said technical training was being provided to youth in more than
fifty market oriented trades so that the youth can be deployed in different sectors.
To meet the demand of professionals in China-Pakistan
Economical Corridor (CPEC), the NAVTTC had initiated many technical
courses including operating of heavy machinery, construction and
electrical etc.
NAVTTC has closed the training programmes in more than seventy
trades which were not demand driven, he added.
Currently, he said the NAVTTC was yielding technical and
professional programmes in collaboration with United States of
America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Japan, Turkey, Sri Lanka, South
Korea, Malaysia, China and others countries.