Fee Reimbursement: Maryam Nawaz to launch scheme in Peshawar today
Students of less developed areas will be provided 100% fee reimbursement.
Daughter of the current Prime Minister, Maryam Nawaz Sharif. PHOTO: WASEEM NIAZ
ISLAMABAD:
The government will launch today (Monday) yet another youth scheme, under which students from Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) will be handed 100% fee reimbursement cheques.
Prime Minister’s Fee Reimbursement Scheme [PMFRS] for the students of less developed areas will be launched from Peshawar, said a statement issued following a meeting chaired by Prime Minister’s Youth Programme (PMYP) chief Maryam Nawaz Sharif.
According to the statement, the PMYP’s chairperson will hand over fee reimbursement cheques to students doing MA, MSc, MS, MPhill or PhD courses from public sector universities, recognised by the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
The meeting was informed that out of the total 30,000 postgraduate students, hailing from less developed areas of the country, more than 6,000 post-graduate students are from the K-P and Fata.
These students will benefit from the Rs1.20 billion scheme launched by the present democratic government to encourage the pursuit of higher education for the students facing financial constraints.
Under the scheme, students domiciled in interior Sindh, Southern Punjab, Balochistan, less developed areas of the K-P, Fata, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) will be provided 100% fee reimbursement in the financial year 2013-14, the meeting was informed.
The PMYP chief said the students of Baluchistan were the first to benefit from the PM’s 100% fee reimbursement scheme. “This testifies the intention of the present democratic government to provide equal opportunities to the students of less developed area of the country,” Maryam Nawaz is quoted as saying.
Here it must be noted that Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar launched the PMFRS in Balochistan on May 21, 2014.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2014.
The government will launch today (Monday) yet another youth scheme, under which students from Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) will be handed 100% fee reimbursement cheques.
Prime Minister’s Fee Reimbursement Scheme [PMFRS] for the students of less developed areas will be launched from Peshawar, said a statement issued following a meeting chaired by Prime Minister’s Youth Programme (PMYP) chief Maryam Nawaz Sharif.
According to the statement, the PMYP’s chairperson will hand over fee reimbursement cheques to students doing MA, MSc, MS, MPhill or PhD courses from public sector universities, recognised by the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
The meeting was informed that out of the total 30,000 postgraduate students, hailing from less developed areas of the country, more than 6,000 post-graduate students are from the K-P and Fata.
These students will benefit from the Rs1.20 billion scheme launched by the present democratic government to encourage the pursuit of higher education for the students facing financial constraints.
Under the scheme, students domiciled in interior Sindh, Southern Punjab, Balochistan, less developed areas of the K-P, Fata, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) will be provided 100% fee reimbursement in the financial year 2013-14, the meeting was informed.
The PMYP chief said the students of Baluchistan were the first to benefit from the PM’s 100% fee reimbursement scheme. “This testifies the intention of the present democratic government to provide equal opportunities to the students of less developed area of the country,” Maryam Nawaz is quoted as saying.
Here it must be noted that Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar launched the PMFRS in Balochistan on May 21, 2014.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2014.