Educational grants urged

Raisani says youth needs to pursue higher studies including acquiring expertise in IT

QUETTA: As the heart of CPEC and the country’s least-developed province, Balochistan deserves special grants to develop research and innovation programmes for its youth, said Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) leader Lashkari Raisani.

“The province’s universities are looking to the federal government for special grants to foster research and innovation in Balochistan following the multi-billion dollar Chinese investment”, Raisani said Friday.

He was addressing a laptop distribution ceremony on the Mastung campus of the University of Balochistan.

Terming Balochistan a regional strategic hub, the BNP-M senior leader said that, in view of the province’s geographical importance, its youth needed to pursue higher studies including acquiring expertise in IT.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 21^st, 2019.