KARACHI, Sept 23: Sindh government will continue to provide professional and technical education at low cost to make it affordable for low-income groups.

This was stated by Sindh Minister for Planning and Development Syed Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari on Tuesday.

He was speaking as chief guest at the day-long national workshop on re-structuring of technical and vocational education and training.

The minister stressed that local workforce be prepared in order to meet the World Trade Organization standards to be implemented worldwide.

He said that Sindh government would oppose commercialization of professional and technical education.

He directed the Skill Development Council, Trade Testing Board, labour, manpower and technical education departments to introduce training programmes in the emerging technologies, besides revising and upgrading the curricula of the old technologies to suit market needs.

Additional chief secretary (development), Ghulam Sarwar Khero, chairman SDC, Ahsanullah Khan, representative of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung of Germany and Abdul Qadir, president of Employers Federation of Pakistan, also spoke.—APP