PM laptop scheme
\n PESHAWAR
\nThe relaunching of Prime Minister\u2019s National Laptop Scheme (PMNLS) has sparked widespread jubilation among young graduates of Pakistan including Khyber Pakthunkhwa that would greatly help in completion of their education and acquiring professional knowledge in selected fields.
\nBesides other provinces, hundreds of thousands of fresh graduates of public sector universities and technical institutions of Khyber Pakthunkhwa would be facilitated from this landmark programme.
\n\u201cPMNLS Phase-III is a great blessing for the young graduates of Pakistan universities and colleges including KP and erstwhileFata to get themselves equiped with essential education tools for advanced learning and relevant education experiences to achieve better jobs inside the country and abroad,\u201d said Professor Dr Muhammad Naeem of Economics Department of the Swabi University while talking to APP on Monday.
\nThe students from Chitral to Waziristan and Kohistan to Khyber districts would be facilitated, adding graduates of all 38 districts of Khyber Pakthunkhwa including seven merged districts would get laptops on merit.
\nDr Muhammad Naeem said the previous two laptop schemes of the Prime Minister had played a very positive role in provision of online education to hunderds of thousands of students of Pakistan including KP during COVID-19 era and connected them with their teachers and researchers.
\nHe said majority of students are rejected in the competitive examinations and interviews due to lack of professional experience, adding this landmark scheme has opened a great window of opportunities to apply online inside and outside of the country for jobs and higher studies.
\nHe highly praised the federal government\u2019s decision to restore Prime Minister Laptop Scheme and other various schemes for economic empowerment of youth under Prime Minister\u2019s Youth Program (PMYP).
\n\u201cI am thankful to Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif whose laptop scheme has helped me in completion of my M.Phil studies,\u201d said lecturer Sundas Amin of the Bacha Khan Degree College, Peshawar while talking to APP.
\n\u201cWhen educational institutions were closed for learning during COVID-19 peroid, the laptops provided under the Prime Minister\u2019s scheme has connected students and teachers online that helped them in completion of their studies without wasting of a calander year,\u201d she said.
\nTerming it a landmark scheme of the present government, he advised students of Khyber Pakthunkhwa including merged areas to take full advantage of it by applying in large numbers.
\nShe welcomed a significant allocation of Rs5 billion for the mega scheme that would encourage the younger generation in all fields including agricultural, science, IT, art, medical, engineering and other sectors.
\nShahab Khan, senior planning officer, KP Education Department told APP that about 100,000 laptops amongst deserving students would be distributed this year under the Prime Minister Laptop Scheme program.
\nHe said 50 percent share were allocated for women while quota of Balochistan has been made doubled.
\nUnder the PM laptop scheme II, he said around 500,000 laptops have been successfully distributed through transparent online system across public sector universities and technical colleges including Federal and ex FATA colleges.
\nHe said the Prime Minister Youth Laptop Scheme (PMYLS Phase-III) has been approved by ECNEC. In the past, he said two such schemes have been successfully executed by the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
\nHe said all students studying in public sector universities and degree awarding institutes and sub-campuses duly recognized by HEC were eligible for the program except distance learning.
\nShahab said students enrolled in PhD, MS, MPhil or equivalent 18-year program or in a 4-year or 5-year bachelor\u2019s degree programs were declared eligible for the scheme.
\nHowever, students who have already received a laptop under any Federal or Provincial Government scheme, foreign nationals, except students from AJK, were not eligible for this scheme.
\nHe said quota of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of Balochistan has been fixed as 14% (14,000 Laptops) and the remaining 86,000 were allocated for public sector HEIs in accordance with their enrollment preferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PM laptop scheme PESHAWAR The relaunching of Prime Minister\u2019s National Laptop Scheme (PMNLS) has sparked widespread jubilation among young graduates of Pakistan including Khyber Pakthunkhwa that would greatly help in completion of their education and acquiring professional knowledge in selected fields. Besides other provinces, hundreds of thousands of fresh graduates of public sector universities and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n