PESHAWAR, May 9: The Chairman of the National Vocational and Technical Education Commission, Altaf M. Saleem, has said that the government has launched a programme in the tribal and other less developed areas of the country to provide technical education to 84,000 youngsters.

He was speaking at the certificate distribution ceremony of the Khyber Institute of Technical Education.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Saleem said that, according to the special programme initiated by the president, a total of 105 youngsters were provided training in the first course out of which 95 hailed from the Fata, while the rest belonged to the settled areas.

The government was paying special attention to the development of technical education so as to equip the new generation with skills and to bring them into the mainstream of life, he added.—APP