100,000 male,female trained under YSDP

ISLAMABAD, Feb 7 (APP):Under Prime Minister Youth Skill Development Programme 100,000 male and female has so far been trained in more than 100 demand-driven trades across Pakistan.
Talking to APP,Chairperson Leila Khan said ” 25-30 per cent of the total seats were reserved for female students, Seminaries’ students and disabled youth were also part of this scheme.
100,000 youth would be trained during 2018-19 under Phase-IV and Rs.6.2 billion was approved by Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) in 2017, she added.
The PMYP different schemes were meant to enabling poor to get good employment, opportunities, secure economic empowerment and probability of getting a productive job, Leila Khan said.
Prime Minister’s Youth Programme is a revolutionary programme of the Government for the socio-economic development of youth in a bid to combat soaring unemployment in the country she said.
It has a broad canvas of schemes aimed at enabling youth and poor segments, to get good employment opportunities, secure economic empowerment and acquire skills needed for gainful employment, have access to higher education and IT tools and access to on-the-job training/internship for young graduates to improve the probability of getting a productive job, she added.
PM’s Youth Programme is running six different schemes, namely PM’s Youth Business Loans Scheme, PM’s Interest Free Loan Scheme, PM’s Youth. Skill Development Programme, PM’s Laptop Scheme, PM’s Fee reimbursement Scheme, PM’s’ Youth Training Scheme she said.