Bhaktapur, Feb 24: Minister for Education, Science and Technology Devendra Poudel said the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) had important role to provide scientific, professional and practical education.

Minister Poudel said it during a programme organized on the 34th anniversary of CTEVT here Thursday. “Exploration of innovative issues and ideas, development of new infrastructures and reach to each local level would help widen scope and image of CTEVT,” he viewed, hoping that quality education would help address the problems of unemployed graduates.

On the occasion, Ministry Secretary Yadav Koirala said CTEVT had an incomparable role to cater quality and employment-orientated education. However, the CTEVT employees must be determined to work with new ideas to excel further, generating necessary human resources for country development. “Time has come to review whether CTEVT activities are competitive to the private-run institutions’ activities,” he reminded, assuring that the new act on CTEVT which is under discussion would address the employees’ problems and heighten Council’s status.

Member Secretary at CTEVT Jib Narayan Kafle informed that they were working with the vision of ‘Skilled People, Prosperous Nepal’. The CTEVT is active to ensure citizen’s inclusive and equitable access to quality technical education and vocational training.

According to him, present annual enrollment capacity at CTEVT programmes is more than 100 thousand including pre-diploma, diploma, certificate level and short course training. The CTEVT runs programmes and training on health, agriculture, animal husbandry, and technology.

Similarly, the teachers and students from various polytechnic institutes put their products on display in the CTEVT premises.

Even a journal containing eight research based articles, TVET, was released by Minister Poudel. He also conferred certificates to the best employees at the programme.