ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced the distribution of a hundred thousand laptops among students across Pakistan on merit.
The announcement was made by the Prime Minister on International Youth Day in Islamabad on Tuesday.
The laptops will be allocated to students from all four provinces, the federal capital, Gilgit Baltistan, and AJK.
The Prime Minister said these laptops will be apart from the scheme for laptops through interest-based loans.
There is a quota system for the distribution of laptops, with 18% reserved for students in Balochistan’s higher education institutions and 5% for distance learning students.
Meanwhile, 600,000 laptops have been awarded to the students on merit as of now, according to Chairman of the Prime Minister Youth Programme (PMYP) Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan.
334,556 were given to male students and 265,444 to female students. The figures were 58,000 for females and 42,000 for males in the year 2024 only.
The scheme has benefited 247,389 students in Punjab, 107,034 in Sindh, 76,094 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 30,513 in Balochistan.
112,270 laptops in the Federal Capital, 9,290 in the erstwhile FATA area, and 14,312 in Azad Jammu & Kashmir have been given so far, according to the details.
During the occasion, Prime Minister Youth Program chairman Rana Mashhood stated that the government’s merit-based programs for youth had helped brilliant and worthy students to thrive in their lives.
He cited other major schemes that continue to help thousands of students complete their education, such as the Pakistan Education Endowment Scheme, the Pakistan Daanish Authority, and the Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme.
The scheme, launched in 2014, awarded laptops to students across the country with a Grade Point Average (GPA) above 3.0.
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