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National Internship Programme in doldrums
Islamabad, June 23, 2008: The National Internship Programme (NIP) that was started in March
2007, by the previous government, does not seem to get any attention by the
present regime.
Almost 20 thousand to 30 thousand unemployed educated youth
were placed in several government departments including Railways, Economic
Affairs, Income Tax Customs, Foreign Office and several other organizations, on
paid internship for a period of one year.
The internees were informed at the
inauguration ceremony of the NIP, that experience certificates would be handed
over to them on the completion of their one-year internship. But the then
government gave no job surety.
However, after the passage of one year, the
initial batches that have completed their internship are still waiting for their
experience certificates.
Further more, no formal closing ceremony of the
completion of the internship was conducted and the internees were only verbally
told not to come after one year without the issuance of any written
circular.
It seems that the reason of the apathy of the present government
towards this programme lies in the fact that the National Internship Program was
initiated by the previous regime, and the present government is trying to
abandon all the policies that had been initiated by the previous
government.
The first batch of the NIP completed its internship on March 31
2008. Almost three months have passed but internship certificates have not been
issued.
Those internees who have shown extra ordinary performance during
internship, and have attained A-grades in their Annual Performance Reports, are
waiting for the appreciation letters to be issued to them.
Moreover,
initially, it was announced by the government that new internship batches would
be accommodated as advertised in the newspapers, but so far nothing has been
done in this regard.
The internees who have completed their internships are
pessimistic about their future. "Presient Musharaf started the internship
programme last year, since that was an election year, and he simply wanted to
attract the youths vote bank by doing so", said Nadeem Tariq, an internee from
the first batch, who had completed his internship and is awaiting for
certificate. The Nation
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