KP government has allocated Rs.96.6 million to em-power the youth of merged districts with employ-able digital skills and enable them to overcome the challenge of un-employment.
Minister for Science and Information Technology, Atif Khan told APP that the program was aimed to facilitate them finding employment with IT skills. In the first phase, 40 youth from the Mohmand dis-trict would be trained under various projects.
He said IT department had introduced a series of courses for youth across the newly Merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to master digital skills to expand their employment opportunities and know-how of the ever-evolving digital world.
He said the provincial government allocated Rs14 billion under Annual Development Program (ADP) to boost the digital economy, transparency and improved service delivery to citizens.
The minister said to materialize the dream of a digi-tal Pakistan, the provincial government had taken number of steps to accelerate economic develop-ment, social progress and acquaint the youth with emerging digital technology skills.
He said under the employable digital skills for the youth of merged districts, hundreds of youth would be trained in skills like, graphics design, wordpress design and development, social media marketing, mobile appli-cation development and blogging and content writ-ing.
The minister said easy and fast employment oppor-tunities for youth were possible through promotion of digital industry in the province.
The Science Technology and Information Technology (ST&IT) department had also started Early Age Programming & IT Essentials for the Children of Government Schools of Merged Dis-tricts of Khyber Pakhtunk-hwa Project with a total budget of Rs. 38.78 million.—APP
