Awareness workshop on Ehsaas and Graduate scholarship program was organized at the Women University Multan in which more than 400 students participated.
Assistant Registrar Ms. Saira Nasir while giving a briefing said that Ehsas Under-graduate scholarship program is the largest under graduate scholarship program in the history of Paki-stan.
This is the first need and merit based scholar-ship program. Under this program, 50,000 students from low-income families are awarded scholarships each year to study in four to five-year undergraduate programs.
Over the next 4 years, 200,000 un-dergraduate scholarships will be awarded on the basis of need and merit.
She said 50% of the schol-arships are reserved for female students. A total budget of Rs. 24 billion has been allocated for the implementation of this 4 year program.
Scholarships offered under this program include a 100% tuition fee and a monthly stipend of Rs. 4,000 /-per month. The program provides financial support to low-income students studying in four to five-year undergraduate programs at 135 public sector universities recognized by the HEC across the country, including Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. She further said that academic performance is monitored and in case of satisfactory performance the scholarship recipients will continue to receive the stipend till the completion of the undergraduate program.
