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7th November, 2010
NYEP Road Project Module Management Starts Training Today
The management of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) will today, begin an intensive training in Koforidua for supervisors and workers under the Road Maintenance Module for the start of the implementation of the module in the Eastern Region.
The training programme, is aimed at educating the workers about their duties and providing them with the requisite skills for a successful implementation of the road maintenance programme.
The road maintenance module, dubbed “Youth in Road Maintenance and Repair,” which was recently launched by the government, is expected to create over 50,000 jobs for the unemployed youth who are being engaged to undertake intensive road maintenance on the road networks across the country.
The weeklong training programme follows an orientation seminar for the programme’s regional coordinators in Kumasi last month, in preparation for the full scale take-off of the road maintenance works.
The orientation for the regional co-ordinators paved way for the beginning of large scale recruitment and training of workers for the module.
Being undertaken as a public/private sector collaboration between the government and Zeera Group, a private road and building construction firm, the road maintenance module was initially targeted to offer 10,000 jobs to the youth nationwide by the close of the year with 1,000 for each region, but the figure was increased to 50,000 jobs after a modification of the programme.
The beneficiaries of the Youth in Road Maintenance and Repair module would be tasked with the general maintenance of roads in the country, including filling up potholes, desilting drainages and clearing bushes at roadsides and to alert Roads and Highways authorities of works required on the roads.
Tapsoba Alhassan, Deputy National Co-ordinator (Operations) of NYEP, expressed optimism that the training would immensely help to successfully implement the road maintenance project.
The training programme, is aimed at educating the workers about their duties and providing them with the requisite skills for a successful implementation of the road maintenance programme.
The road maintenance module, dubbed “Youth in Road Maintenance and Repair,” which was recently launched by the government, is expected to create over 50,000 jobs for the unemployed youth who are being engaged to undertake intensive road maintenance on the road networks across the country.
The weeklong training programme follows an orientation seminar for the programme’s regional coordinators in Kumasi last month, in preparation for the full scale take-off of the road maintenance works.
The orientation for the regional co-ordinators paved way for the beginning of large scale recruitment and training of workers for the module.
Being undertaken as a public/private sector collaboration between the government and Zeera Group, a private road and building construction firm, the road maintenance module was initially targeted to offer 10,000 jobs to the youth nationwide by the close of the year with 1,000 for each region, but the figure was increased to 50,000 jobs after a modification of the programme.
The beneficiaries of the Youth in Road Maintenance and Repair module would be tasked with the general maintenance of roads in the country, including filling up potholes, desilting drainages and clearing bushes at roadsides and to alert Roads and Highways authorities of works required on the roads.
Tapsoba Alhassan, Deputy National Co-ordinator (Operations) of NYEP, expressed optimism that the training would immensely help to successfully implement the road maintenance project.
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