Government to launch PM youth training scheme

The authorities have completed all arrangements to launch Prime Minister’s Youth Training scheme shortly under which 50,000 graduates would be offered paid internship. 

PM Youth Training Programme Chairperson Leila Khan said that youth, having 16 years of education from Higher Education Commission (HEC) approved institutions, would be paid Rs 12,000 per month stipend for one year.

She said it is for the first time that private sector has been involved in internship scheme with sole objective not only to facilitate the youth, but also ensure more employment opportunities for them after their adequate training and capacity building through internship programmes.



*50,000 graduates would be offered paid internship *Each intern to be paid Rs 12,000 per month stipend foe one year*25,000 interns would be selected from Punjab, 1,000 from AJK, 3,000 from Balochistan, 2,000 from Gilgit Baltistan/ FATA, 3,750 from Islamabad, 5,750 from KP, 9,500 from Sindh


She said to make the process more transparent and merit-based, receiving of all applications and selection of candidate would be made online. She said allocation of interns will be made in accordance with the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award and Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) recruitment criteria for provincial and regional quotas. PM’s youth programme was a flagship programme of the government for socio-economic development with a budget outlay of Rs 20 billion, she said, adding around 300,000 people are benefiting from its different schemes annually.


The chairperson said the other scheme under PM’s youth programme was laptop scheme under which around 100,000 laptops have been distributed so far amongst students registered in HEC approved educational institutions in first phase. The second phase is about to be launched soon, she added. Around 100,000 laptops would be disbursed every year. The proposed budget allocation for next four years (2014-18) to execute this scheme is Rs 20 billion, she maintained.


She said a local assembly unit has been installed and around 1,000 laptops were assembled during first year, adding that in next four years, it is planned to enhance technical capacity of this unit to 0.15 million, which will create a lot of job opportunities for the educated youth.