July 28, 2008	Monday	Rajab 24, 1429

KARACHI, July 27: Sindh Labour Minister Ameer Nawab Khan has said that about 100,000 youths will be imparted skill training and provided stipend under the Benazir Youth Programme.

Talking to various delegates who called on him at his office on Sunday, the minister said job opportunities for youth had been publicised through ads in newspapers. “Now it is the responsibility of candidates to contact the department concerned,” he said, adding that the jobs would be awarded on merit though the poor and jobless individuals would be accorded priority.

Due to the ban on recruitment over the past few years, he said unemployment became a critical challenge.

To overcome the problem, he said the government would get cooperation from the private sector.

Talking about comprehensive policies being devised for the welfare of labourers, he said besides imparting free education to children of labourers the procedure to provide dowry to their daughters had also been simplified.—APP