Dormaa-Ahenkro (B/A), Sept 2, GNA - Mr Vincent Oppong Asamoah, the Dormaa Municipal Chief Executive, and Mr Stephen Amponsah, the Director of National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI), have jointly cut the sod for work to start on a GHC40,000 girls' hostel for Dormaa Vocational Training Centre at Dormaa-Ahenkro.

The project expected to be completed within 12 months and is sponsorsed from the Japanese embassy.

Mr Asamoah lauded the Japanese assistance, saying it had come at a time that the Institute was consulting with government to provide infrastructural support and equipment to make vocational training centres across the country more responsive to demands of modern technology.

Mr Amponsah said the government, in ensuring that all vocational centres were well equipped, had invested GHC 300 million to retune each of the centres 93for the enormous task ahead of them".

The Centre's Board Chairman, Barima Yeboah Kodie, who is Aduanahene of Dormaa Traditional Council, stressed the need for intensive orientation of the youth on the benefits of vocational education.

He pledged on behalf of Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang-Badu II, to provide any additional plot of land needed for the hostel project.

The Centre's Manager, Mr. Richard Addo-Gyamfi, said the institution, which has 452 trainees comprising 362 males and 90 females had never had any major infrastructural improvement in its 34 year-history.

He commended the Dormaa Municipal Assembly and the Centre's Board of Directors for their dedication to the project.

The Centre Manager also thanked the Assembly for sponsoring more than 200 students to undertake various courses at the Centre and appealed to well-meaning Dormaa citizens and philanthropists to help establish an ICT Centre.