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These decisions were taken in the 21st meeting of Tevta with Mohsin Syed, newly-appointed authority chairman in the chair on Friday.

The authority deliberated and approved restructuring of organisational structure of Tevta and introduction of matric vocational for girls at 15 Tevta institutions across the province.

By offering matric vocational, Tevta will help females to become more useful not only for themselves but also for the national economy.

In order to promote the idea of public-private partnership in the interest of industry and economy, a proposal to collaborate with University of Management and Technology and establishment of a centre of excellence in the auto sector was endorsed.

The meeting also decided that training programme in civil technologies at all levels would be implemented to meet the demand of the construction industry within Pakistan as well as Middle East.

The meeting was attended by Tevta secretary Azam Suleman Khan and authority members.

By Our Staff Reporter

 The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) has decided to launch short training courses in agriculture, food preservation, civil technology, refrigeration and air conditioning, and information technology to train required manpower and eventually meet the growing demand of skilled manpower.

Tevta has also decided to evolve an efficient system to involve industry, agriculture and academia in the management of Tevta institutions with an objective to make full use of available technical and intellectual resources. This system will also help the authority form policies according to the demand of industry and implement these policies in letter and spirit.

These decisions were taken in the 21st meeting of Tevta with Mohsin Syed, newly-appointed authority chairman in the chair on Friday.

The authority deliberated and approved restructuring of organisational structure of Tevta and introduction of matric vocational for girls at 15 Tevta institutions across the province.

Sindh Skill Development Project

The funding to institutions would be made available through transparent and competitive funding mechanism. The potential of the institutions to cater to the market demands will be the major requirement. The institution will also require implementing some institutional reforms to ensure private sector support and participation in the training activities. The institutional reforms will include establishing one Institute Management Committee at institute level and an Advisory Group for each program

The project will finance revision, upgradation and development of up to 70 markets driven training programmes. Individual institute may submit proposals for maximum of three programmes but would only be eligible to be funded for a maximum of two programmes. Certificate and Diploma program with minimum 06-month duration to 3-years would be covered. 70% of the total programmes to be upgraded or newly developed will be Certificate Courses (6 – 12 months) and remaining 30% will be Diploma Courses. All vocational Commercial, institution (Monotechnic and Polytechnic) will be eligible to apply for funding under the project. The funding for each program would be up to $ 65,000/-. The funding will be utilized mainly to cover the expenditure on:

Aims

The basic objective of Component – 2 of the Sindh Skills Development Project (SSDP) is to establish responsive and market driven institutional training programmes in the institutions under the Administrative control of STEVTA to meet the growing demand of skilled workforce from employers / skills market on one hand and to provide maximum opportunities for decent employment to trainees on the other hand. Under this Component, the selected training institutions fulfilling the requisite conditions would be provided funding to redesign, and upgrade the existing training programmes and to develop new training programmes for improving the quality and relevance of training in these institutions.

The funding to institutions would be made available through transparent and competitive funding mechanism. The potential of the institutions to cater to the market demands will be the major requirement. The institution will also require implementing some institutional reforms to ensure private sector support and participation in the training activities. The institutional reforms will include establishing one Institute Management Committee at institute level and an Advisory Group for each program

Introduction

The objective of the Sindh Skills Development Project (SSDP) is to support the Sindh Government in strengthening and expanding its Skills Development programmes by improving the quality of vocational training to produce high quality skilled workforce from the Government funded training institutions and to provide better and decent employment opportunities to un-employed youth of the province. The Project would also seek to promote institutional reforms and innovations in the selected Training Institutions, improvement in the existing and development of new programmes and to strengthen the overall management capacity of the Technical Vocational Education and Training System in Sindh Province