Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday has launched Rehmatul-Lil Alameen scholarship program for intermediate and undergraduate students in Islamabad under which the government will give 70,000 scholarships to students from lower-income groups annually.
Speaking on the occasion, Imran Khan said the scholarship will be available to all the Pakistanis All students, irrespective of their religion which means non-Muslims are also included.
“The federal government will provide 5.5 billion rupees for seventy thousand scholarships annually,” he added.
He said under the scholarship program a total of three hundred and fifty thousand scholarships will be provided in five years at a cost of 28 billion rupees.
The premier further said that the provincial governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will also separately provide scholarship to the students.
He said the present government is especially focusing on the education sector with the aim that our youth learn from the Sunnah of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH).
He stressed that there things are important for the progress of country including rule of law, welfare for the common man and education.
“Without education, a nation cannot prosper,” he noted.
Following the occasion the Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood said ‘Rehmatul-Lil Alameen scholarship’ is a nationwide program and it will be implemented in 129 universities across the country.
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar joined event via video link and said that a mechanism has been developed so that the students can apply for the scholarship from their homes.
In his remarks, Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said they support the federal government's initiatives aimed at uplifting the education sector.
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