{"id":44766,"date":"2024-08-12T20:41:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44766"},"modified":"2024-08-12T20:41:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:41:17","slug":"pm-shehbaz-announces-1-million-smartphones-laptops-for-students-check-eligibility-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-announces-1-million-smartphones-laptops-for-students-check-eligibility-here\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz announces 1 million smartphones &#038; laptops for students: Check eligibility here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-sharif-orders-closure-of-pakistan-pwd\/\">Shehbaz Sharif<\/a> on Monday announced to give 1 million smartphones, tablets and laptops to students in the province, who will be selected on merit.<\/p>\n<p>As per the details, the Shehbaz Sharif made this announcement while addressing a ceremony organized in connection with International Youth Day in the federal capital.<\/p>\n<p>He promised to ensure the provision of ample resources to the youth of the nation to help transform the country into a developed nation.<\/p>\n<p>His aim was to provide opportunities to the youth, who are a large part of the country, to change the destiny of Pakistan as Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The youth of the country have the potential to take the nation to new heights, if they are given access to modern education and resources,&#8221; the state broadcaster quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also announced that he would personally fund the education of 1,000 agricultural graduates in China, adding that such measures would help boost the country&#8217;s agricultural production.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that Huawei has also committed to send 200,000 youths for IT training and advanced education.<\/p>\n<h2>Eligibility of free <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-aims-to-export-5-billion-worth-of-smartphones-by-2029\/\">smartphones<\/a> for students<\/h2>\n<p>The Prime Minister laid down some basic criteria for distribution of free smartphones, laptops and tablets to students as complete details will be shared in due course.<\/p>\n<p>According to available information, 10 lakh smartphones, tablets and laptops will be provided to high performing students across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Students from all four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/gilgit-baltistan-brings-rs-300m-in-revenue-from-trophy-hunting-this-season\/\">Gilgit-Baltistan<\/a> will be eligible to benefit from this scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, each province has separate programs to help students, the Prime Minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif on Monday announced to give 1 million smartphones, tablets and laptops to students in the province, who will be selected on merit. As per the details, the Shehbaz Sharif made this announcement while addressing a ceremony organized in connection with International Youth Day in the federal capital. He promised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[7877,367],"class_list":["post-44766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-technology","tag-smartphones","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44768,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions\/44768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}