The 3rd MOL scholarship documents distribution ceremony was held here Monday for the deserving students hailing from Hangu, Karak and Kohat-oil and gas exploration districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The President of Awami National Party and Senator Afrasiab Khattak was the chief guest on this occasion while the Provincial Minister for Higher Education Qazi Muhammad Asad, Minister for Social Welfare, Sitara Ayaz and Minister for Housing, Amjad Afridi, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer MOL Pakistan Oil and Gas Company, Janos Faher and other high ups of MOL also attended the function.
Speaking at the ceremony Senator Afrisiab Khattak appreciated MOL contribution for promoting education and undertaking other uplift activities in oil and gas exploration areas of the southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and urged the scholarship earning students to work hard for changing the future of their agricultural and industrial disadvantaged province.
He said that talented students from these areas had always faced lack of resources that could have helped them pursue a bright career. He said that unfortunately Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been involved in the war against terrorism, but in fact by tradition this province had never been a land of terrorism and extremism and always known as the soil for promoting education, culture and civilisation.
He said that people of this province every time voted for peace and democracy. Announcing establishment of first girls college in Banda Daud Shah of Karak district, Afrasiab Khattak asked MOL Pakistan to also concentrate on strengthening of health and other uplift facilities for the people of the oil and gas exploration and producing areas.
Janos Feher, Managing Director/CEO of MOL Pakistan at this occasion informed that scholarships for intermediate students cover tuition fee, boarding and lodging and cost of books at the rate of a total of PKR 4000 per month and is given over a period of two years paid with six monthly instalments. A total of 65 scholarships have been awarded to students from three districts of Karak, Hangu and Kohat in TAL Block so far, he added.
Explaining the technical scholarship programmes he told that each award offers PKR 10,000 per month for engineering and geology and PKR 7000 per month for DAE students over a period of two years and a total of 26 scholarships have been awarded in technical education comprising engineering and geology studies.
Janos Feher said MOL Pakistan has shown its unflinching confidence in People of Pakistan in general and people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular. MOL Pakistan, he said has always supported the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan by dispatching different consignment of relief items to the disaster hit areas.
Whether it was earthquake in 2005, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) due to operation of Malakand in 2009 or flood victims of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab in 2010, MOL has always come forward to mitigate the sufferings of those affected. Later scholarships certificates were distributed among intermediate and technical education students.
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