Prime Minister Youth Programme Chairperson Laila Khan on Monday said that the first phase of the PM’s youth training programme has been completed and the second phase will start soon.
Talking to Radio Pakistan, she said that the government was determined to end poverty by providing skills and job opportunities to the upcoming generation.
She said that during the second phase, fifty thousand internships will be awarded to youth who have completed sixteen years of education.
The internees will be paid twelve thousand rupees per month as a stipend during the one year internship, she added.
Laila said that a number of youngsters of the country were being provided trained and interned through the PM’s youth training programme.
Laptop, loan, and internships schemes are part on the youth programme and more than a million young adults will benefit from it, she added.
“Jobs cannot be guaranteed but the provision of best technical training will definitely help them find good jobs,” Laila said.
“We advertise the programme through media channels for youth belonging to rural areas,” she remarked.
The programme chairman said that quotas of 25,000 for Punjab, 9,500 for Sindh, 3,000 for Balochistan, over 5,800 for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1,000 for Azad Kashmir, and 5,800 for Gilgit Baltistan, FATA and the Islamabad Capital Territory had been allocated.
