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The silent emergency is beginning in Pakistan. Millions of young people are entering the workforce without a clear path for sustainable livelihoods. Every year, more than four million young people enter the job market, hoping that the economy is expected to prepare a living, which has neither scale nor the structure of absorbing them.
Nevertheless, businesses from information from information technology to textile are underway to report the shortage of skilled workers. Amid the unemployment and unemployed employer of growing youth, this disconnected has become a clear feature of Pakistan’s development crisis.
Pakistan faces a massive difference. About 62 % of the workforce does not have formal education or technical training. Although the urban literacy rate is 74.09 %, most workers-even school-educated-reduce today’s digital and service-powered economy.
This situation is especially severe in rural and backward classes, where basic literacy is also uncertain and for many, middle school education is uncertain.
There is no alternative for those who get out of the early education system. After primary and middle school high dropout rates leave millions without any skills, no credentials and a realistic opportunity in a decent job. Unlike India, Bangladesh and the Philippines, Pakistan has not developed parallel, high quality technical and professional educational system that is capable of absorbing these youths.
Even when there are institutions like Private C, TEVTA and PSDF, their impact is limited to great demand. In Punjab, these institutions train about 200,000 people annually. A commendable attempt, but insufficient when it is measured against the millions of the job market every year.
In addition, the TVET sector continues to struggle with a limited infrastructure, low investment and a lack of tension to measure effectively. This failure is not inevitable to speed up professional education. This is the result of policy differences and scattered plans.
The countries that have effectively removed the job gap from education have done so through the construction of a dual track system. One that integrates both formal education and professionalism into a united national development project.
After Junior Secondary School (Grade 9), Chinese students choose between two routes:
General Academic Education (leads to the University)
Technical and professional education (causes skilled job)
About 50 % of all students enter the professional track. They receive job -based job training in partnership with industry. This system is not seen as inferior. It is a respected, well -financing and dynamically integrated path that supports China’s industrial, technology and services economy.
Skills camp is not just another training program. This is a slowdown, elastic and future -based learning, demanding remote and deliberate change from outdated models. It is a platform for unlocking Pakistan’s youth’s economic capacity.
This approach has enabled China to scale both its skilled labor strength and global competition. Professional training is not thought. It is a pillar of economic strategy. On the contrary, the development of skills continues to behave as a supportive effort, which is presented in Siles, often with outdated materials and limited accessories.
This is the place where the Punjab Skills Development Fund steps with the skilled camp. Skills camp is not a traditional professional program. This is a re -engineer solution that is designed for today’s economic facts.
Short, deep 8-10 week boot camp styling courses combine online learning with hand-on training in modern labs, provided by advanced private training providers. Courses target high opportunities, future -ready fields, including:
n Digital Freelancing
n Software Development
n Green Technologies
n Climate innovation
The skill camp is designed for asset light, hybrid and scale. It suppresses a slow -moving, scattered system in an employee -An -Forty engine. Each component is based on the result-focusing on the preparation of the employment, the increase in income and the economic participation.
If 50,000 learners were scaled, the annual income in the skill camp could generate Rs 12 billion, which could cost Rs 3 billion by extension of its business process outsourcing (BPO). These are not estimated – they are based on the actual performance of the previous PSDF programs.
This is an economic activation on a scale – buying domestic income, local consumption and regional growth. The Skin Camp is already spreading through the Chief Minister’s Youth Employees Program (BPO Connect), which develops for the first role of remote, remote growth in providing customer support, digital operations and global service to youth. With the minimum infrastructure requirements and ready -made employer pipeline, BPO connect can transfer young people to unemployment faster.
The ongoing cooperation of PSDF with the IT Industry Association, P -Shaw, ensures that the training is in collaboration with employers and is associated with the rapidly developed tech landscape.
The PSDF model offers a copy of the manpower to change the Blue Print. But this should be scaled especially at the national level. Pakistan needs a comprehensive manpower strategy that prefers demanding skills, promotes public private partnerships and enables digital delivery to eliminate rural urban distribution.
Our world rivals have already done this. India invested in it and built an industry. China added skills with manufacturing and innovation. The Philippines took advantage of outsourcing to expand its service economy. In all cases, the development of skills was developed before.
We should do the same. Skills camp is not just another training program. This is a slowdown, elastic and future -based learning, demanding remote and deliberate change from outdated models. Literacy is a platform for unlocking the economic capacity of Pakistan’s youth by turning into a job and employment prosperity.
Half of the steps are over. Pakistan cannot afford to leave any other generation behind.
If the vision is scaled with a hurry, the skilled camp can be a new era of prosperity with the skills of the youth of Pakistan.
Author, CEO of Punjab Skills Development Fund, is a digital leader whose technology has more than 25 years experience in consultancy
