Pakistan’s textiles secretary Syed Iftikhar Hussain Babaron recently launched the 3rd phase of the Stitching Machine Operator Training (SMOT) programme at the Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers & Exporters Association’s (PHMA) Institute of Knitwear Technology in Karachi. Rupees 33 million has been allocated for this phase, which will train 1,800 unskilled workers.
Under this two-month program, workers will be trained through the PHMA institutes in Karachi and Lahore, institutes of the Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PRGMEA) and through some industrial units in Punjab, according to Pakistani media reports.Pakistan's textiles secretary Syed Iftikhar Hussain Babaron recently launched the 3rd phase of the Stitching Machine Operator Training (SMOT) at the Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers & Exporters Association's (PHMA) Institute of Knitwear Technology in Karachi. Rupees 33 million has been allocated for this phase, which will train 1,800 unskilled workers.#
Underprivileged candidates will receive a stipend of Rs 5,000 per month.
Babaron said this phase is a follow up of the textiles ministry’s initiative taken up in June 2006 to provide textile industry workforce with value-added skills, according to PHMA. Under SMOT-I and SMOT-II programs, 8,500 workers were trained from 2006 to 2011. (DS)
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