LAHORE – Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) is providing apprenticeship training to more than 6,000 in 783 operating industries across Punjab. It was disclosed by TEVTA Chairperson Saeed Ahmad Alvi while addressing a seminar. Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Shahid Naseem Khokhar, General Manager (HRM) TEVTA Asif Wasim, leading entrepreneurs of business community and other attended the seminar. He said that the Apprenticeship Ordinance, 1962 envisages the promotion and regulation of systematic apprenticeship programmes in industrial units employing 50 or more persons.
It obligates employers to recruit and train apprentices in different trades. This is mandatory and essentially of welfare nature. The training period of apprentices commonly ranges from six months to three years.
Apprenticeship training in Punjab is being implemented through Regional Directorate of Apprenticeship Training (RDAT) under the administrative control of TEVTA at Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Rawalpindi, Multan and Bahawalpur.
Although, under the ordinance, it is the obligation for the employer to arrange practical and theoretical training of apprentices in factories at their own cost, however to assist the employers, the Government of Punjab has established apprentices training centers across the cities with industrial concentration such as Faisalabad, Ferozewala, Gujranwala, Lahore and Sialkot with the objective to provide institutional training to industrial apprentices.
