PBM to provide Rs 10 million scholarships to BKU, WU students

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) will provide an amount of Rs 10 million to sponsor education of deserving poor students of Bacha Khan University (BKU) Charsadda and Women University (WU) Mardan. For the purpose, PBM has already signed an agreement with both universities last week, under which PBM would give Rs 5 million scholarship to each university which would be given by the university administration to needy students.
PBM Managing Director Aon Abbas signed the agreement with BKU Charsadda vice chancellor Dr SM Saqlain Naqvi and WU Mardan vice chancellor Professor Dr Ghazala Yasmeen.
According to PBM's MD, 82 universities of the country were offered Rs 5 million for financing scholarships for deserving students. Initially 4,000 students are availing the opportunities and as per vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan the facility would be extended to other universities soon, he said.
He said the government was taking measures for real change in the country and now it was responsibility of students to contribute their share in the cause. He said PBM would give priority to students of far flung areas.
The MD said PBM's basic purpose was to eliminate poverty and support the needy families and students. He recalled that PBM had already released over Rs 1.1 billion funds to more than 10,000 deserving patients of cancer and other fatal diseases.
"Federal government is utilising all available resources to give equal rights and opportunities to women folk," he said, adding that the government would provide mobile phones with internet facility to as many as 2.8 million females across the country enabling them to get benefit of source of information.
Under Women Empowerment Program, as many as 12,000 women had received vocational training and got machines, laptops and other equipments to start their own respectable business.
Aon Abbas also announced Rs 10 billion Ramzan Package and Rs 10,000 for taking care of orphan children. He said that under Labour Child Programme, PBM was bearing educational expenses of 18,000 deserving children in 150 schools across the country. He further said that PBM was looking after 3,000 orphan children and the number would reach 10,000 in next four months.