QUETTA: Mir Sarfraz Bugti, the chief minister of Balochistan, presided over the 11th board meeting of the Balochistan Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (B-TEVTA) on Tuesday, giving the order to create a comprehensive plan that would provide 25,000 young people in the province with technical training in a variety of fields by the following year.
The program to upskill 30, 000 young people and send them overseas for work was also decided to be accelerated.
The forum examined continuing programs to support technical education, develop young people’s professional skills, and generate job opportunities.
Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti inaugurated an ‘Institute Registration Portal’ designed to boost the capacity of technical education and make the registration and monitoring systems for institutions more effective.
This portal will facilitate the registration of technical training institutes and help improve the system for monitoring their performance.
Addressing the meeting, Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti said that fostering a conducive environment is essential for providing employment opportunities to the youth.
He emphasized that promoting technical education and skills development is indispensable for steering the youth toward economic self-reliance and added that technical training should be provided in alignment with modern standards and market demands, enabling the youth to secure employment, both locally and internationally, thereby improving their families’ economic conditions and playing an effective role in the country’s development.
The Chief Minister directed relevant officials to formulate a comprehensive strategy to integrate 25,000 youth who would complete their technical training by next year into the national and global economies.
He emphasized the need to align training programs with actual employment requirements, ensuring that youth are not merely trained but are practically connected to job opportunities.
The meeting also stressed accelerating progress on the program to equip 30,000 youth with skills in various sectors and send them abroad for employment.
The Chief Minister said that transforming the potential of the youth into employable skills for both domestic and international markets is a critical need of the hour, to achieve this, the performance of technical training institutes must be improved, training standards ensured, and effective coordination fostered among relevant agencies.
The meeting also reviewed the slow pace in achieving the targets of the Chief Minister’s Youth Skills Development Program.
It was reported that action has been initiated against those responsible for delays in program implementation and negligence in meeting the set targets.
The Chief Minister directed that the implementation of technical training projects be expedited and that the performance of relevant institutions be regularly monitored to ensure the achievement of established goals.
According to Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti, Balochistan’s young have enormous potential that, if directed properly, may be crucial to the growth and prosperity of the province’s economy.
In order to give young people, access to chances for respectable employment, improve their economic self-reliance, and become active participants in the national and international economies, he stressed the importance of making technical education and vocational training programs result-oriented.