LAHORE ( Web News )
Chairman, National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (NAVTTC), Mr. Shahid Khan inaugurated the Centre of Excellence (COE) in Government Technical Training Institute (GTTI), Mughalpura, Lahore. The Chairman NAVTTC handed over the key of COE to Mr. Akhtar Abbas Bharwana, Senior Director General, TEVTA Punjab in the presence Mr. Sebastian Paust Counsellor Head of Development Cooperation Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Islamabad, Dr. Mansoor Zaib Khan, Deputy Head of Programme TVETSSP and the distinguished guests. The participants expressed that the Technical Education is only the key for development of country by engaging the youth of the Pakistan. It has been established by NAVTTC with the cooperation of GIZ, European Union, Norway and Germany. The country is in need for more Centres of Excellence which provide state of the art cutting edge technology trainings to the youth, which are in high demand internationally and in industry. NAVTTC has established Centre of Excellence for Training and Development at Mughalpura, Lahore with multiple labs in modern technologies through donors, for 14 different trades which includes Information Technology, Electrician, Plumber, Machinist, Auto Mechanic, HVACR and Electronics applications etc.
The Government continues to give a high priority to skills training especially in Hi Tech like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, cyber security etc. The Government has given NAVTTC the target to produce one million skilled youth workforce, and availability of such a big skilled labour will cause a massive improvement in the jobs market and industry. The government is focusing on the reforms in TVET sector to bring the technical and vocational trainings in line with the requirements of the marketplace, in order to prepare the workforce with accreditation from international bodies.
Centre of Excellence (COE), Mughalpura, Lahore will be a center for training of chief master trainers and master trainers, who would then train a large number of youth in modern employable technologies. This will further pave the way towards allowing the Pakistani TVET system to sustainably improve delivery of training and assessment, career counseling and job placement.