PM Imran Khan promises to offer 6 million more scholarships in the near future.

By Team CG
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January 28, 2022
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Prime Minister Imran Khan has declared that the government will grant six million scholarships to low-income students in the near future.

He said this on Sunday while answering a live caller during the fifth session of the program Aap Ka Wazir Azam Aap Key Sath, explaining that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has set aside Rs. 47 billion for six million merit-based educational scholarships and school stipends for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

He said that previous governments had ignored education, creating different educational systems for the elite, middle, and lower classes, but that the PTI government has "established a common syllabus for all to eliminate this divide."

The introduction of the new scholarships comes five months after the government launched 50,000 Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship Program scholarships through the Higher Education Commission (HEC).

Every year, 50,000 students from low-income households earn scholarships for four to five-year bachelor degree courses under Pakistan's largest need-based/merit-based undergraduate education program. It is available in all provinces, as well as Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Islamabad, and covers 100% of the tuition fee and a monthly living stipend.