National Vocational and Technical Training Commission has worked out 60 syllabuses for different subjects which will be finalized by the end of current month. These syllabuses would be taught at around 1500 public and private centres, operating across the country under NAVTTC control. The Commission under the leadership of its Chairman Adnan A Khawaja has set a target to impart training to another 100,000 unemployed youth at countrywide centres to make them useful citizens of the country, enabling the youth to compete international markets. The NAVTTC has already trained around 100,000 youth under the Prime Minister’s Hunarmand Pakistan Programme and the President’s `Funni Maharrat Programme’.
The skilled manpower will be produced under NAVTTC’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform Support Programme, which has been launched in collaboration with GIZ – a German donor agency. The GIZ has recently signed an agreement with NAVTTC to assist in promoting technical education and producing quality manpower at par with international standard. Under the agreement, GIZ will provide financial assistance amounting to Euro 42.4 million in five years for implementation of the National Skills Strategy 2009-2013. The crowning achievement of Adnan Khawaja is the development of the National Skills Strategy (NSS) 2009-2013, which he got approved from NAVTTC’s Board of Directors soon after assuming the charge. The emphasis of the NSS is a shift from the supply-oriented training to the demand-driven training. The strategy will help mitigate the unemployment in the country and strengthen the national economy as skilled workforce would be available which would meet the demand of local industry and that of labour importing countries. Under the plan, 21 strategic initiatives have been proposed to translate this vision into reality, transforming the sluggish economic regime into vibrant and buoyant economic system.
The NAVTTC has expanded its network of vocational and training centres at Tehsil level across the country especially in far-flung areas of the country to make the unemployed youth useful citizens of the country. Under the TVET plan, 1,000 centres are being accredited to impart vocational education and technical training, while programmes would be launched for capacity building of 100 Master Trainers and 10,000 teachers having the task to prepare 100,000 skilled and market-based youth.
