Overview
- Punjab officials say registration is currently open for the third phase of the CMIT Internship Programme to bring new university graduates into its training cohorts.
- Each internship runs for four months and provides participants with hands-on IT training plus a monthly stipend of Rs50,000 funded by the Punjab government.
- Earlier phases of the programme have trained thousands of young people, the Information Minister said, and the new phase is meant to scale that reach.
- Information and Culture Minister Azma Bukhari framed the programme as a key part of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s youth economic empowerment agenda and as a practical step rather than a promise.
- The programme could help graduates gain marketable skills and short-term income while officials track placement and scale; observers should watch enrolment numbers and post-internship job outcomes as measures of impact.