LAHORE, June 14: Governor Khalid Maqbool said on Friday that the government would provide world standard local industry-oriented vocational training to youngsters in the country so as to make the human development movement a success.

He said this during a meeting with National Commission on Human Development Chairman Dr Naseem Ashraf at the Civil Secretariat. Mr Ashraf briefed the governor on the progress in different health, education and unemployment projects by the federal government.

The governor said Tevta would provide technical training to 60,000 boys and girls through its short-term programmes, enabling them to seek employment in industrial units in the province.

He said out of its zakat fund share of Rs2.80 billion the provincial government would spend Rs600 million on providing free technical education to the deserving students.