Islamabad
Realizing the country’s true potential in the Gemstones & Jewelry sector, the present government has organized around 395 training sessions in seven major cities during the last fiscal year for skill development of the workforce, equipping them with modern techniques and technologies being applied in the gemstones industry worldwide.
Pakistan Gems & Jewelry Development Company conducted as many as 23 training sessions in Karachi, 114 in Lahore, 31 in Peshawar, 40 in Gilgit, 127 in Quetta, 45 in Muzaffarabad and 15 in Sargodha for capacity building of the industry and it’s manpower, according to an official report available with APP.
The report mentioned that Pakistan’s Gems & Jewelry exports stood at $25.267million during the last three years, which cautioned that a lot of work still needed to be done for the promotion of this sector.
Accordingly, the incumbent government formed a Prime Minister’s Task Force on Gems & Jewelry with the mandate to identify the inherent issues.–APP
