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The federal government anticipates the creation of a million jobs under the Kamyab Jawan Programme, an aggressive small and medium enterprise lending scheme which is expected to stimulate job creation and economically empower the youth.
Kamyab Jawan, which falls under the Prime Minister's Youth Programme, is a collaboration with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda).
A Youth Affairs Department official, Abdul Rasheed, was quoted by APP as saying that Smeda would find the top business ventures in local and international markets to facilitate young Pakistanis.
He said that Smeda would impart vocational and technical training to the youth, while the department would extend maximum support for the improvement of technical and vocational training.
Rasheed added that Smeda would also educate and facilitate the youth to provide training to others in the development cycle.
The PM’s Youth Affairs initiative will extend its facilities to the maximum possible number of youngsters in order to create more employment opportunities in the marketplace, Rasheed stated.
The United Nations Development Programme's 'Pakistan National Human Development Report' estimates that more than 29 per cent of the country’s population consists of young people between the ages of 15-29 years.
The Youth Empowerment Programme (Kamyab Jawan Pakistan) aims at creating opportunities for knowledge, skills and leadership development of the youth to further "Agenda 2030".
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Usman Dar last month chaired a meeting of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics to discuss the launch of the National Youth Development Index (NYDI) survey, which seeks to "capture data, for the first time in our national history, on almost 100 indicators to gauge education level, employment status, health conditions, social engagement trends, and overall well-being of young people aged 15-29 at a district-level across Pakistan," according to the adviser.
The PTI in its manifesto promised to create 10m jobs in five years as part of its plan to boost economic growth. It intends to target key sectors such as SMEs, housing, tech, education, the green economy and tourism.
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I am not expecting anything.
PMLN did the same and started doling out massive loans to the youth and the result was not even 1 percent growth. PMLN had spent more than 100 billion rupees on this gimmick. PTI has renamed the scheme and now more loans for the youth are promised under this renamed scheme. Now another 100-200 billion rupees will vanish into thin air. But this will not help at all. It will only help in getting some facebook and twitter likes. Popular slogans cannot and will not solve our complex problems. First PMLN made a fool out of us and now it is Imran's turn.
Thumbs up again for the PM
Great work PM Imran Khan. This is Naya Pakistan.
what quality of jobs will youth have ?
Industries, manufacturing companies, factories, have to be profitable, to create jobs, spaces for others, otherwise, what's the point.
SMEDA would require financial autonomy.
Further, SMEDA should work on a sustainable business model, if it really wants to excel and be a demand side entity for SMEs.
Dream on
Every politicians say big words on employment but fail to deliver.....instead of giving employment make youth self employ....boost Entrepreneurship...
Country is borrowing mkneh at 8% intrest rate. At what rate youth will get the money 10%.How will they compete against Chinese who get money for 2% intrest
A million jobs... Wow! PM Khan does it again. Hopefully...
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
Before dispensing funds, give them lesson on business practises, ethical behaviour and payment of taxes.
@Mohsin Malik, article did not talk about loans, its about creating jobs.
Building castles in the air.
It is so refreshing to see scientific, data and evidence based analysis of social problems to devise effective targeted remedies....only objective, forward thinking will help break the vicious cycle the nation is stuck in. Well done PTI!
@Mohsin Malik, You are 100% right we can see one like here....
We all know that Pakistani educated youth is worthy of nothing except govt. jobs to do nothing. Mostly uneducated find their way out of the country for labour jobs. Now mr. Zulfi Bukhari is trying to convince those uneducated ex-patriots to invest in a country where they know that their money will vanish without a trace. PM Imran Khan is very far away from realities of his country and its public.
@Hamed A. Jarwar, That's the spirit!
Pakistan and India should prioritize population control first will eliminate half of their problems
@Mohsin Malik,
I didn't read anything about loans to youth. This is support to SMEs to offer training and create jobs. Not saying it will be successful as we are a country of crooks but here's to hoping.
Good move, irrespective of all other factors. Technical and vocational training would not hurt anyone. The youth would have something they could actually do, apart from just reacting to religious and emotional issues. They have been fooled for too long.
@Gordon D. Walker, yes million jobs, come back to Pakistan, job guaranteed
YIPS was also a scheme in the past, what came off it? No reports to that. This might also fall under the same route. Concrete steps of monitoring should be undertaken. Why youth only, there are retirees as well who want to earn income to support in their later lives.
Just another announcement. Container politics.
Nawaz announced the same, and it went nowhere.
Entrepreneurship and job seeking are separate things.
SMEDA so far has trained many. Instead of trainings and wasting our time..,please create opportunities.
@Mohsin Malik, I personally know a young individual who took the loan for which i provided the guarantee . That young boy returned the loan and is successfully running his distribution business now , earning more than 30k per month.
Like all other jumla promises this is another one. Create 1000 job first, forget millions.
It is easy to make people fool.
Millions of loan defaulters will be created.
@Mohsin Malik,
Dude first read properly than post something ignorant. PMLN did nothing for the youth at first place apart from distributing laptops. PTI here is introducing vocational training program to skill the youth first before placing them for a job. Huge difference and smart move.
What the youth will do with the loan? Buy a taxi or a shop?
Old wine in a new bottle.
this government has a lot of aims...................but no plans so expect failure
There huge potential for job for men and women along the China Gwadar roads.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. And our governments always prefer to give youth a fish because it just wins votes.
Excellent news one after the other and everyday. This is the specialty of PMIK. That’s the reason that all institutions and army are waiting for PMIK to conmand them on the correct path. Bravo. Love PMIK
@Mohsin Malik, Could you prove your statement by providing evidence, which show that PMLN spent billions on youth.
Generating jobs is a good move however make the Youth become entrepreneurs who give jobs to others...Self employment must be encouraged...Youth must be able to select their own choice of trade and specialize in it...The Govt. must provide the training so they become self employed....This will solve majority of the unemployment In Pakistan...
The PTI's has completed its all programme project except 'a million jobs' for youth under Kamyab Jawan Programe. Making fool the entire jawan of the nation...isn't it?
Real vocational training which China and many other successful countries undertook provided huge benefit to the economy and individuals. To help improve exports and raise quality of work you need to produce real plumbers, electricians, technicians, mechanics, assembly workers in large numbers. More incentive to be given people joining the vocational training and less resources should go towards many tertiary studies which have given not much to the country or to the person attaining that education except a degree. Globally we are truly falling behind.....just look at Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh. Focus should not be on providing people with the live drama of court cases rather our youth learning skills that can bridge the gap in the areas that we are really falling behind. My recommendation is that government gives the resources to private enterprises with clear expectations.
@Sohail, By Made in China stuffs..
No PSU are doing good, No FDI inflow, No industrial environment, High power price, corruption, no money to invest on development/infra....where do you get jobs?.............
When PM himself has no work, how will he create work for a million?
But what happened to CPEC? It was supposed to create 10 million jobs? 2 years back we had to hear the words like "CPEC, "game-changer", at least 4 times a day. Now there is a deafening silence on CPEC.
NS also launched a similiar programme with SMEDA - it got nowhere. lets see how far this goes
Yet another gimmick by PTI government. Where are these jobs hiding?
Don't just distribut money among youngs but lend only for business againt carefully evaluated business proposal and personal resume. If return is less than 50% fire relavant departments heads.
The best thing for Pakistan is to build schools, offer scholarships, allow the youth to focus on school, education, better grades, let them work for it, let’s not keep giving out loans, that won’t teach them anything. No hand outs please, give people the opportunity to be proud of their achievements
A new story begins..season's...
Aims or dreams ?
@Zak, Let himself learn these qualities first.
How are we bank rolling these over ambitious projects . Yellow taxi scheme, benazir income support scheme, laptop scheme and loan scheme for youth by last pml (n) , all were financial disasters - only lining the pockets of politically influential persons . Please focus on foundational issues like sustained and sound population growth , cleanliness in cities , basic education and vocational training institutes for employable skills within the country .