While addressing the meeting of the TEVTA officials at TEVTA Secretariat, hereon Thursday, Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that the next batch of Chinese Language class is going to start from January 8, which will be 14th batch since the courses was started.
He further said that the course has received overwhelming response from people from all walks of lives. Chairman TEVTA said that so far around 14,000 applications had been received against 4000 seats for this course across the province. Still there is one day left for the receiving of application forms for the next batch, he added.
"So far we have offered this course to 20,000 people in six batches; he said adding that till next year we would have taught Chinese to more than 30,000 students of Punjab. Irfan also said that this course is being offered in 47 institutes of 23 districts including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Sheikhpura, Sahiwal, Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Khanewal, Layyah, Rahim Yar Khan, DG Khan, Bawalnagar, Jehlam, Attock, Jhang, Toba Tek Sing, Jarranwala, Okara, Chiniot and Kasur.
He said that students, professionals, businessmen, government officials and women from all ages got admission in this class. He also said that due to the immense demand of the course we started offering courses in two to three shifts.
He said that in many colleges of Lahore, the course is being offered in three shifts however, in all other colleges of Punjab the course is being offered in two shifts. Talking about reason behind people's interest in this course and overwhelming response, Irfan explained that TEVTA's focus is quality first then quantity therefore Chinese master trainers are teaching at TEVTA institutes.