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Additional modules are to be introduced this year under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) to give more job opportunities to the youth.The modules include mining, stone quarrying, construction and entrepreneurship.Speaking in an interview with the GNA, the Obuasi Municipal Co-ordinator of the NYEP, Mr Samuel Kingston Amoah, said that the new modules were relevant for implementation in the Obuasi municipality because of available opportunities.He said a lot of people with technical education in construction had already submitted application forms and that they would be suitable for the construction module.Mr Amoah said: "When this module is implemented, it will help this group who are quite sizeable in number."He said the entrepreneurship module was good for those with tertiary education who are yet to be gainfully employed and that university and polytechnic graduates who had applied would be offered training.Mr Amoah said there were lots of construction works going on in the municipality and that favoured the quarrying module.He said NYEP had trained 20 sanitary workers who had started work whilst additional 25 had begun work with the Zoomlion Company."We have also placed 60 youth to undergo a month's training at the Ashanti Regional Police Training Depot under the Community Protection Unit module," he said.Mr Amoah said his outfit intended to recruit 100 auxiliary teachers during the next academic year and at the moment "We are close to almost 300 youth whom we have employed under the programme".Source: GNA
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