Key Takeaways:
- Pokhara Metropolitan City will provide free vocational training to 120 individuals.
- Courses include hospitality, caregiving, cooking, barista skills, beauty services and early childhood development.
- Each course will have 20 participants, with training lasting 160 to 390 hours.
- The initiative aims to promote employment, self-employment and entrepreneurship.
KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 3: This fiscal year, 120 people in six job-oriented sectors will receive free vocational training from Pokhara Metropolitan City. The program, which is run by the Economic Development Division's Business Promotion Center, will address early childhood development, caregiving, cooking, barista skills, assistant beautician services, and waiter and waitress services.
Twenty people can enroll in each course, and training sessions will last anywhere from 160 to 390 hours. The duration of training will be 160 hours for baristas, 360 hours for assistant beauticians, and 390 hours for each of the other courses. By the end of November, interested candidates may submit their applications together with the necessary paperwork.
Center for Business Promotion According to Chief Nawaraj Adhikari, the initiative's goal is to give young people useful skills that meet the demands of the labor market so they may find employment or launch their own enterprises. Building on earlier municipal training programs, the program is anticipated to boost Pokhara's expanding hospitality and service sectors while generating jobs and boosting the local economy.
Sources: The Himalayan Times
