PAKISTAN PREPARES TO LAUNCH MAJOR VOCATIONAL SKILLS PROGRAMME FOR TEXTILE SECTOR
October 1st, 2014
Pakistan is gearing up to launch a vocational training programme to train 120,000 male and female workers over a period of five years to acquire skills required in the country’s economically important textile industry.Pakistan’s minister for the textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi told the WTiN.com that the programme would be launched once the Eid festival has been celebrated in the first week of October. “The training programme was announced in the federal budget for 2014-15, but its launching was delayed due to the protests undertaken by two opposition ...
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