CALL AGENT TRAINING PROVIDES ASSURANCE FOR BETTER FUTURE. GOVERNOR SINDH

Karachi Feb 03: The first badge of the city government’s Call Agents and English language training program completed its course as 750 youths out of total 3000 selected for the training passed out on Tuesday. Governor of Sindh Dr. Isharat-ul-Ebad Khan gave away certificates to the participants in a ceremony held at Metropolitan Academy.

City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal, Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil, Provincial Minister for youth affairs Faisal Subzwari, DCO Javed Hanif and Town Nazim Gulshan Iqbal Wasey Jalil was also present on this occasion.

In his address the Governor of Sindh said that Pakistan’s first I.T Tower is under completion and the City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has laid the foundation for provision of trained manpower to the project by arranging call agent training to 750 youths.

“This would in fact a long term investment for Pakistani youths that also provides assurance for a better future of Pakistan. Only trained manpower could play key role in the progress of the country” he added.

Governor of Sindh said the BPO at present is an emerging industry in the world but in our country it could not get any attention. Now City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal paid special attention on it. The youths after getting training of call agent would not only serve Pakistan but the whole region will be benefited from their expertise.

Addressing the program Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal said that this is a unique project of city government under which it is spending Rs.120 million to impart I.T and English language education to over 3000 youths who would get a better future after completing this 6 months course.
He said that the city government was first time in the history of Pakistan spending millions of rupees on Human Resources Management to impart quality I.T (Call Agent) and English language training to 3 thousand youths from city’s low income areas and Katchi Abadies.

Nazim Karachi said that city government is spending Rs.60,000 per person for this training. The selection of the trainee was made without any consideration of caste, creed or language as it was aimed to help jobless educated youths to get decent and respected jobs in future.

He said that in past never any provincial, federal or district government in Pakistan spent a penny on the Human Resources Development while the city government has besides carrying out a number of development works in Karachi also taken measures to help provide better livelihood to youths. He further said that the project was unique in the sense that the training would ensure at least Rs.15 thousand a month job to educated young generation which would get even better with the experience. He said that presently the BPO was regarded as the fast developing industry in the world. The investment alone in this sector in United States has reached up to nearly $200 billion. “If we are not getting BPO business in Pakistan than it was due to the unavailability of trained manpower. Therefore we have taken initiative in this direction without waiting for any step from the provincial or federal government, the city nazim added.

He said that the city government could have instead planned some other huge project which the public would have remembered for decades but we did not believed in just getting praise for our works as we work to bring about more convenience and facilities in the lives of citizens.
Nazim Karachi expressed hope that the training program would besides providing respected jobs to our jobless youths also bring about foreign investment worth billions of dollar in the country. This step would provide good opportunities in future to our educated young generation especially for those who belongs to middle class.

Speaking on the occasion, City Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil said that CDGK call centre and its first badge is another milestone in the history of Pakistan. Karachi has always brought about revolutions and the call center’s graduates would also cause a fresh revolution.