National Youth Assembly President Hanan Abbasi has said that there should be national youth commission to monitor the youth loan programme.
Abbasi said that it was the responsibility of the government to ensure the success of the scheme by the formation of national youth commission adding he said that present government was seriously pursuing youth loan programme in Pakistan.
He said that in the past many youth programmes were started for the youth but the successive government had stopped them.
“In Sri Lanka there is a National Youth Services Council which is working for the welfare of youth. This youth services council is running youth hostels and monitoring educational and employment opportunities for youth in Sri Lanka,” he maintained.
He added that there are nearly 140,000 Pakistani highly skilled engineers, doctors and lawyers working in different parts of the world. He said that law should be made for the formation of national youth commission in Pakistan. He said that 60 percent population of Pakistan is youth and it is necessary for the government to launch some youth specific schemes.
He added that there is a need to establish youth entrepreneurship department in the universities to give training to the youth, mobile entrepreneurship should also be established to give training to the youth of far-flung areas.
