Tevta trains 1,500 youths

LAHORE

Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) trained more than1,500 unemployed youths in industrial stitching machine operator course. 

Four thousand young people will be trained during next year and six months duration free short courses have successfully been launched in Tevta Institutes at Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and DG Khan on the need of garment industry to provide them with trained manpower. It was stated by Tevta chairperson Irfan Qaiser Sheikh while addressing a meeting on Monday at Tevta secretariat to review the progress of this course. Chief Operating Officer Jawad Ahmed Qureshi, Akhtar Abbas Bharwana, Aamer Aziz, Azhar Iqbal Shad, Umer Farooq, Mustafa Kamal Pasha, Muhammad Maqsood, Aisha Qazi, Uzma Nadia, Sarfraz Anwar and others attended the meeting. 

Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said Tevta in collaboration with Nishat Apparel has established Govt Apparel Manufacturing Training Institute (GAMTI) in 2012 at Gujjumatta Ferozepur Road. At present, more than 1500 trainees of this institute have been given employment in garment industry. All trainees have successfully got jobs.