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HYDERABAD, Dec 3: Sindh Minister for Labour, Industry and Transport Mohammad Adil Siddiqui has urged the jobless youth not to wait for government to provide them jobs and consume their time in acquiring technical know-how.
Speaking as chief guest at the foundation stone laying ceremony for a technical training centre near the Scout Ground in Latifabad Unit No.9 on Saturday, he said that the government had allocated funds to train youths and enable them to run their own businesses.The minister said that the Rs17.837 million double storey centre, which would be completed in 18 months, would train youths in designing, hotel management and computer hardware to enable them to land jobs or run their own businesses.
He said that the government had directed all the industrial units to provide 90 per cent of jobs to locals. The government was also taking measures to eliminate child labour, he added.
Latifabad Taluka Nazim Engineer Sabir Hussain Kaimkhani, Secretary Labour Nasar Hayat, MPAs Aslam Pervez and Naeem Ishtiaque also attended the ceremony.
NAZIM: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has reiterated the claim that the district is spending more on development works in Qasimabad taluka than in Latifabad and city talukas.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony for a park in Bhittai Nagar of Qasimabad on Saturday night the nazim said that highly educated people who lived in the taluka were quite capable of judging good from the bad.
