75 tribal students get UNDP three-month skill training
By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Seventy-five students from Khyber Agency have received certificates and tool-kits after they successfully completed three months skill training in different capacities.

A distribution ceremony was held in Peshawar the other day which was attended by a large number of Fata officials, students and United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) representatives.
 Chief Executive Fata Development Authority Fida Wazir was the chief guest in the distribution ceremony. While speaking on the occasion he said that they had selected 75 unemployed and educated youth from
Tirah Maidan and Bazaar Zakhakhel areas of Khyber Agency. He said the course was conducted at National Logistic Cell (NLC) training centre in Mandra Rawalpindi, adding that  the students participated in
different heavy machinery training including excavator, motor grader, loader operating ,tailoring and Plumbing.
He said UNDP with the collaboration of FDA leave no stone unturned to create jobs and business opportunities in the tribal areas. He lauded the UNDP role said that a large number of youth in Fata who have started their own businesses earning livelihood respectfully for their families.
Fida said on the special directives of governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KP),Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan,they increased the number training seats for jobless youth in Fata. He said provision of training facilities to tribal people would help reduce poverty and extremism from the region.
The speakers said the basic aim of the training was create skillful manpower so that they could earn for their families not in Pakistan but they could increase remittances by sending their earned money from
abroad.
Yousaf Rahim, Additional Director General projects Fata, thanked Fata Development Authority (FDA) for the technical support in the execution of such a vital activities for the tribal youth . He said each student
was paid a stipend of rupees 2500 per month and free food and accommodation were also provided to them during the three months long training.
Rahim urged the graduates that they should utilize their skills for the uplift Fata. He assured the outgoing trainees that the government would soon arrange advance trainings courses for them so that they
could further polish the existing skills. UNDP Program Manager, Faisal Anwar, appreciated the students'
capabilities said that three months were a limited time but they were outstanding in their cadres. He hoped that United Nations Development Program would continue its support to train more Fata youths.

 Shakeel Afridi and Shah Jehan Afridi,who completed the three months training course said that they were well-trained and now they would be able to run their own businesses to earn for their families.  Fida Wazir, Faisal Anwar and Tufail Khan at the end distributed certificates and tool-kits among the graduates.