ISLAMABAD: The Benazir Income Support Programme will provide vocational training to the beneficiaries of the BISP and the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (Kati) will help place them in factories and commercial concerns.

BISP chairman Enver Baig and Kati president Syed Farrukh Mazhar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect on Friday.

The MoU aims to reduce poverty by providing jobs to the BISP candidates on completion of their vocational training.

The BISP will make up for the manpower shortage in emerging trades. Females will be encouraged to join and earn their livelihoods in a respectable manner.

The BISP’s Waseela-i-Rozgar is providing training to selected people in association with public and private training institutes to pull them out of poverty by giving them a chance to earn money.

Kati will induct successful candidates into industrial units and commercial concerns affiliated with it and provide on-the-job training to untrained BISP beneficiaries.

According to the MoU, Kati will determine market’s employment needs and the BISP will provide skill development training after which job placement will become a responsibility of the association.

Kati chief appreciated the BISP’s initiative.