FIPWASA Decides To Launch Strong Protest Movement Across Country

Applications of 2,267 deserving students to receive full funding for their higher education at public and private universities across the nation have been approved by the Sindh govt.

FIPWASA Decides To Launch Strong Protest Movement Across Country

The applications of 2,267 deserving students to receive full funding for their higher education at public and private universities across the nation have been approved by the Sindh government. The Sindh Educational Endowment Fund Trust, whose board of trustees is made up of relevant government and academic officials, has made arrangements for the scholarships.

This year, the trust received 10,354 applications for the 3,385 scholarships that would be awarded using a need-cum-merit system for choosing deserving students.

2,267 of these applicants’ applications satisfied the criteria for selection. The total number of Sindh-based students receiving one of the trust’s scholarships would surpass 7,000 with the addition of these new applicants.

Deserving students from Sindh who enrol in 83 universities across Pakistan to pursue higher education in 11 disciplines are eligible for the scholarship programme.

The Sindh government contributes Rs 2 billion annually to the endowment fund trust, which has a capital investment of Rs 6.8 billion, to cover the educational costs of all the chosen deserving students.

The minister of education for Sindh, claimed that only Sindh had been covering all of the costs associated with the higher education of so many students who, despite coming from underprivileged backgrounds, had the desire and credentials to enrol in any prestigious university.

According to him, more higher education fields should be chosen for scholarship awards after considering their market value in terms of creating job opportunities for graduates.

Minister urged the concerned donors and philanthropists to step forward and generously contribute to the funds on hand with the trust so that more deserving students could benefit. He said that using only government funds would not be adequate.

In order for the chosen students to benefit from their higher education as soon as they were admitted, he pleaded with the relevant officials to make sure that scholarship money was made available to them right away.

To the knowledge of prospective students from underprivileged areas, he requested that universities prominently mention scholarships offered by the trust in their websites’ and admission advertisements’.