Thursday, 7 January 2010

Gov’t to Place More Emphasis on Trades and Vocation Module

04-01-2010 Gov’t to Place More Emphasis on Trades and Vocation Module

The National Co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme, (NYEP), Abuga Pele, has expressed government’s determination to engage more unemployed youth in the area of trades and vocation to replace the normal module which according to him place more burden on government’s pay roll. Speaking to Radio Ghana, Mr. Pele said the new module under the NYEP include the application of ICT in repairs, servicing and assembling of ,mobile phones, computers, laptops, as well as training in grasscutter rearing, dressmaking, sachet water production among others. In order to ensure a smooth implementation of these new modules, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Communication in collaboration with rLG Communications, recently launched the ICT module in Accra. Mr. Pele said the initiative is in accordance with government’s interventional policy to use ICT as a way of bridging the developmental gap between Ghana and the outside world. He said government would gradually reduce the intake of security personnel recruited under the NYEP and place more emphasis in the training of more youth in trade and vocation module to help unearth their talents.. Mr. Pele disclosed that about 70 thousand people who are currently in the trade and vocation module would be given special attention through the provision of materials and equipments for their training. This, according to Mr. Pele, aims at increasing the quality of businesses in the country and called on the youth to take advantage of it, particularly, residents in the three regions of the north. He added that government as a matter of concern is determined to engage 100,000 youths using the various NYEP modules with 6,000 going into ICT training and mobile phone initiative schedule to begin April 2010.

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