Govt to launch ‘Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship’ project next week: Dr Sania Nishtar

Govt to launch ‘Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship’ project next week: Dr Sania Nishtar 

ISLAMABAD, Oct 7 (APP): Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar Monday said the government would launch Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship (EUS) project during next week to facilitate needy students in getting education.

“The project would be formally launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan after his return from China,” she said while addressing a news conference along with President Saylani Welfare International Trust (SWIT) Yousaf Lakhani.

Terming the EUS one of the most important initiatives of the Ehsaas programme, she said the government was fully aware of the education needs of children of the under privileged families of remote areas.

Under the Ehsaas programme, Dr Sania said more than 130 policies and initiatives were being executed for well-being of the common man and living standard of downtrodden segments of the society.

She said the government in collaboration with private sector would establish as many as 112 Ehsaas Langars points across the country to feed the poor and laborers, over a period of two years, adding the first-one had already been inaugurated by the prime

minister at Sector G-9 of the federal capital.

She said the Langar project was in line with the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan who wanted that no person in the country should sleep with empty stomach and under the open sky.

Dr Sania said the Langars would be opened in collaboration with SWIT, where the needy would be provided quality meal in a dignified manner without hurting their ego.

She thanked the prime minister for his supervision and guidance in making the Langar scheme a reality, adding it would benefit the deprived class by extending them ‘clean charity feeding space’ on daily basis free of charge.