Scholarships complaints portal launched

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday launched a portal to exclusively register complaints related to the educational scholarships which, he believed, would ensure meritocracy, transparency and uplift the students with more hunger and drive.

Linked with the Prime Minister Citizen Portal, the facility would help scholarship-holders to register their complaints regarding the problems faced by them, besides ensuring the judicious use of the allocated resources.

The prime minister said that a team of academics would constantly oversee the portal and guide the government to grant scholarships in particular subjects keeping in view the needs of the market as well as the country.

He said the government had long been receiving complaints from the students for being neglected or delay in the payment of scholarships which prompted him to introduce a technology-based centralized system for verification and criteria setting of scholarships.

Prime Minister Imran said the portal would also help save the precious time of the students and make them focus on their education that otherwise had to go from pillar to post to register their scholarship-related complaints.