ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Council of Science and Industrial Research (PCSIR) on Sunday directed the Pak-Swiss Training Centres (PSTC) to interact with industry and motivate them to adopt “one child policy”.
PCSIR Chairman Dr Shahzad Alam chaired a meeting of Pak-Swiss technical training institutes of PCSIR and directed the heads of these institutes to interact with industry and motivate them to adopt “one child Policy”, read a press release.
This policy will ultimately act as breed base for skilled manpower requirement of the manufacturing industry.
The heads of the training institutes briefed the chairman about the up-to-dated progress of the assigned targets and upcoming activities of their respective institutes.
During the meeting, the chairman praised the efforts of director, PSTC Quetta for the start of curricula activities which were almost stagnant since last 7-8 years due to low order situation in Balochistan.
The chairman directed the institutes to enhance the intake capacity and introduce the new courses within available resources and to cater the needs of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
He also emphasized to establish closed liaison with NAVTIC and provincial TEVTA.
At the end, Dr Shahzad Alam praised the efforts of the heads/principals of training institutes and stress upon to do more and more so that technical training institutes could become more vibrant and self sustainable.
