{"id":62152,"date":"2020-03-02T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62152"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:27:21","slug":"pm-award-50000-scholarships-undergraduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-award-50000-scholarships-undergraduates.html","title":{"rendered":"PM to award 50,000 scholarships to undergrads under Ehsaas initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s \u2018Ehasaas Graduate Programme\u2019 will launch today, with the awarding of over 50,000 scholarships to shortlisted students, according to news sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/china-to-give-hi-tech-training-to-1000-students.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"China to give hi-tech training to 1,000 students (opens in a new tab)\">China to give hi-tech training to 1,000 students<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme is a need and merit-based\nscholarship initiative, planned to span over the next four years and facilitate\nover 200,000 students, by covering their tuition fee and offering them various stipends.\nAccording to the PM\u2019s office, the programme is first of its kind as it is\ntargeting undergraduate students, instead of those getting their masters or\ndoctorates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, half of the initiative\u2019s beneficiaries are girls hailing from low-income families, whereas 2% of the scholarships are to be awarded to the students with special needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-hire-architecture-students-build-5-mn-nphp-houses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt to hire architecture students to build 5 mn NPHP houses (opens in a new tab)\">Govt to hire architecture students to build 5 mn NPHP houses<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, the offered scholarships fall under the government\u2019s poverty alleviation \u2018<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ehsaas (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-launch-skill-development-training-programme-youth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ehsaas<\/a>\u2019 initiative for students hailing from public sector universities across the country. The project seeks to ensure that each maximum number of eligible students get a higher education, undeterred by the financial constraints. Undergraduate students enrolled in the specified 119 public \u2013 HEC recognised \u2013 universities and have a family income of less than PKR 45,000 are eligible to apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s \u2018Ehasaas Graduate Programme\u2019 will launch today, with the awarding of over 50,000 scholarships to shortlisted students, according to news sources. Read: China to give hi-tech training to 1,000 students The programme is a need and merit-based scholarship initiative, planned to span over the next four years and facilitate over 200,000 students, by covering their tuition fee and offering them various stipends. According to the PM\u2019s office, the programme is first of its kind as it is targeting undergraduate students, instead of those getting their masters or doctorates. Furthermore, half of the initiative\u2019s beneficiaries are girls hailing from low-income families, whereas 2% of the scholarships are to be awarded to the students with special needs. Read: Govt to hire architecture students to build 5 mn NPHP houses Reportedly, the offered scholarships fall under the government\u2019s poverty alleviation \u2018Ehsaas\u2019 initiative for students hailing from public sector universities across the country. The project seeks to ensure that each maximum number of eligible students get a higher education, undeterred by the financial constraints. Undergraduate students enrolled in the specified 119 public \u2013 HEC recognised \u2013 universities and have a family income of less than PKR 45,000 are eligible&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15020],"tags":[21527,21531,21528,8109,21529,21530],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-developments","8":"tag-50000-scholarships-to-undergrads-under-ehsaas-initiative","9":"tag-ehasaas-graduate-programme","10":"tag-ehsaas-programme","11":"tag-pm-imran-khan","12":"tag-scholarship-for-deserving-students","13":"tag-undergraduate-students","14":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM to award 50,000 scholarships to undergraduates - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PM Imran Khan\u2019s \u2018Ehasaas Graduate Programme\u2019 will launch today, with the awarding of over 50,000 scholarships to shortlisted, undergraduate students\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-award-50000-scholarships-undergraduates.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM to award 50,000 scholarships to undergraduates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PM Imran Khan\u2019s \u2018Ehasaas Graduate Programme\u2019 will launch today, with the awarding of over 50,000 scholarships to shortlisted, undergraduate students\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-award-50000-scholarships-undergraduates.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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