The Startup Pakistan Programme will provide assistance to the youngsters

ISLAMABAD, Jan.8 (Gwadar Pro) - Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs (SAPM) Usman Dar Wednesday said Hunarmand Pakistan will offer high technology training to youth based on modern digital trends.

The programme is going to be launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday (January 8) under the banner of Kamyab Jawan Programme whereas the Hunarmand Pakistan (Skills for All) was designed on the basis of recommendations of National Skills Strategy Task Force headed by Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood that tabled robust and out of the box proposals to develop the programme, the SAPM said while briefing the media over launch of the Hunarmand Pakistan Programme here.

Usman said it was the largest skill development programme in the history of the country that would impart training on emerging technologies and latest advancements of the 21st century.

"All of the skill training programmes launched earlier were focusing on numbers of masses to be trained on conventional trade skills where nobody talked about information technology and modern developments taking place in the world. They only set target to cater around 200,000 people under those projects. Hunarmand Pakistan programme would impart training on artificial intelligence, robotics and many others," he added.

According to UrduPoint, Hunarmand Pakistan, he said was the New Year gift to the youth of Pakistan by the prime minister. The youth should prepare themselves to get skill set training under this programme which would help them to seek relevant jobs in the industry and market alongwith the opportunity to get assistance to set up new businesses as well, he added.

Dar said, "Our target is to benefit 80 percent youth of the country through Hunarmand Jawan Programme where they would get job and business opportunities after getting skill based training." He said it was the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan to have skill sets to enhance human resource in line with the job market trends and also enable the youth with better business opportunities.

He said, "The Startup Pakistan Programme is also providing assistance to the youngsters whereas an internship programme is also in the pipeline which would be launched within few months. Green Youth Movement is also going to be launched where the youth creating innovative projects for environment conservation would be financed under the programme." The special assistant said that all these five components of Kamyab Jawan Programme would be launched in 2020 to benefit the youth.