Under the program, the Fund, which is operated by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, will extend 70 different types of training ranging from carpentry, FM studio technician and electrician to cook, bartender and beautician to male aged 16 to 35 and female aged 16 to 40 in 66 districts of the country. [break]
“A total of 36 training and employment service providers has already been appointed to extend 70 different training to youthss, most of which last for three months,” the Fund said.
Priority is given to economically poor youths, high school dropouts, dalits, individuals of indigenous groups, ex-combatants, differently-abled persons, internally displaced people and HIV infected people, according to the Fund, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), the UK´s Department for International Development (DfID) and the World Bank.
One of the benefits of enrolling in these training is that the trainee will be guaranteed a job with a minimum monthly wage of at least Rs 4,600 upon completion of the course, as programs are designed after conducting a survey on job market´s ability to absorb these human resources.
This relieves trainees from the pressure of running around places looking for jobs, which at times can never be found.
A recent study conducted by the Fund had showed that undergoing vocational training, prior to entering the job market, can push up monthly wages by over three times.
The study showed that people, who were earning average of Rs 2,471 per month prior to taking vocational training, had started taking home a paycheck of Rs 8,933 on average after acquiring necessary technical skills through professionals.
The study was conducted among 670 of 14,468 ´graduates´ of different training institutes that had partnered with the Employment Fund in 2008/09.
The study also found that 46 percent of the ´graduates´ of 2008/09 were still engaged in jobs that matched the training taken in those years. Another 44 percent were also employed but not in sectors directly related to the training they had acquired. The rest, however, were engaged in jobs that did not match their training.
Of these employed people, 43 percent were self employed and the rest were working as salaried staff, the survey found.
The Fund, which launched the program in 2008, has extended training to over 55,000 individuals till the end of 2012.
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