{"id":103620,"date":"2025-10-14T13:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=103620"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:45:28","slug":"gcci-to-train-gwadar-youth-in-industrial-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gcci-to-train-gwadar-youth-in-industrial-trades.html","title":{"rendered":"GCCI to train Gwadar youth in industrial trades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gwadar: The Gwadar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has announced the formation of a 50-member team to receive industrial training in collaboration with the Sialkot and Gujranwala chambers of commerce, aiming to establish small-scale industries in Gwadar and create legal employment opportunities for local youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a press conference at the GCCI office, President Jeehund Hoth said the initiative follows the chamber\u2019s recent visits to major industrial hubs in Lahore, Sialkot, and Gujranwala. \u201cWe have visited the big industrial hubs of Punjab, and both Sialkot and Gujranwala have agreed to support our plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the initiative, the Sialkot Chamber will provide training in the manufacturing of leather goods, surgical instruments, and other trades, while the Gujranwala Chamber will focus on electronics production. The training program will last three months, with both chambers offering free accommodation to participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the training period, industrial experts from Sialkot and Gujranwala will visit Gwadar to assess local capacity for producing export-quality goods. If found viable, they have expressed willingness to help establish small industries in Gwadar and employ the trained individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gwadars-blue-economy-projected-to-add-usd-850m-to-exports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gwadar\u2019s blue economy projected to add USD 850m to exports<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis opportunity is open to everyone, whether they are GCCI members or not,\u201d Hoth clarified. \u201cWe will select motivated individuals and either bear the training expenses ourselves or work with our partner chambers to cover them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GCCI Media Advisor Sajid Bin Rahim said the initiative aims to shift Gwadar\u2019s economy toward legal, sustainable business activities. \u201cWe want to change the perception that Gwadar depends on illegal trade. Our goal is to bring people into legitimate industries and make local wealth circulate within the district,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that GCCI has identified 50 small business ideas suitable for local production, including plastic goods, bottled water, cooking oil repackaging, and artificial jewelry. \u201cEven if we succeed in establishing 30 small industries, they can directly employ around 300 people and generate many more indirect jobs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GCCI also plans to register these enterprises with the Balochistan Small Industries Department to ensure proper legal and administrative support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said the effort marks a major step toward transforming Gwadar into a small-scale industrial hub, modeled on the successful industrial ecosystems of Sialkot and Gujranwala \u2014 two of Pakistan\u2019s leading centers for export manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwadar: The Gwadar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has announced the formation of a 50-member team to receive industrial training in collaboration with the Sialkot and Gujranwala chambers of commerce, aiming to establish small-scale industries in Gwadar and create legal employment opportunities for local youth. Addressing a press conference at the GCCI office, President Jeehund Hoth said the initiative follows the chamber\u2019s recent visits to major industrial hubs in Lahore, Sialkot, and Gujranwala. \u201cWe have visited the big industrial hubs of Punjab, and both Sialkot and Gujranwala have agreed to support our plan,\u201d he said. Under the initiative, the Sialkot Chamber will provide training in the manufacturing of leather goods, surgical instruments, and other trades, while the Gujranwala Chamber will focus on electronics production. The training program will last three months, with both chambers offering free accommodation to participants. After the training period, industrial experts from Sialkot and Gujranwala will visit Gwadar to assess local capacity for producing export-quality goods. If found viable, they have expressed willingness to help establish small industries in Gwadar and employ the trained individuals. Read: Gwadar\u2019s blue economy projected to add USD 850m to exports \u201cThis opportunity is open to everyone, whether they are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":103193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[68687,7498,68690,53199,68689,53198,50423,68685,2807,68688,13378,34475,68686,68333,68684,60120,61674],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-balochistan-industries","9":"tag-economic-growth","10":"tag-export-industries","11":"tag-gcci","12":"tag-gujranwala-chamber-of-commerce","13":"tag-gwadar-chamber-of-commerce-and-industry","14":"tag-gwadar-development","15":"tag-industrial-training","16":"tag-job-creation","17":"tag-legal-trade","18":"tag-local-manufacturing","19":"tag-pakistan-economy","20":"tag-sialkot-chamber-of-commerce","21":"tag-skills-development","22":"tag-small-scale-industries","23":"tag-sustainable-development","24":"tag-youth-employment","25":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GCCI to train Gwadar youth in industrial trades - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Sialkot Chamber will provide training in the manufacturing of leather goods, surgical instruments, and other trades, while the...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gcci-to-train-gwadar-youth-in-industrial-trades.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GCCI to train Gwadar youth in industrial trades - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Sialkot Chamber will provide training in the manufacturing of leather goods, surgical instruments, and other trades, while the...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gcci-to-train-gwadar-youth-in-industrial-trades.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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