Islamabad: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has stated that Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) should focus on vocational training other than cash payments to the poor in a meeting with Chairman BISP Enver Baig on Saturday, Radio Pakistan reported.
Dar added that the BISP program should be in unison with the Prime Minister Youth Programme.
In the meeting, Chairman BISP Enver Baig informed that two memorandum of understanding (MoUs) have been signed with Korangi Association of trade and Industry (KATI) and Khyber Pakhtun khuwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry to provide vocational training and on job training to beneficiaries.
He said that an MoU will be signed with Daewoo Company the coming week for providing training to drivers, mechanics and other transport staff. Moreover, he revealed that a multinational company has agreed to provide free vocational training to one hundred beneficiaries of the program every month.
Gulf state has a job market of two million workers and government is focusing on construction sector in this massive prospect.
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