SWABI, June 16: The screening of students under a programme initiated by the ministry of information technology for encouraging the talented youth of non-metropolitan areas to study information technology in top universities of the country will be held in select district headquarters on Sunday.

The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Lahore University of Management Sciences, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences-Fast have been selected by the ministry to conduct the programme with the assistance of the National Information and Communication Technology, Research and Development across the country, said Dr Abdullah Sadiq, Rector GIK Institute.

The ‘Out-Reach Programme’ is aimed to help about 3,000 students and some 300 teachers in non-metropolitan areas of the country win the scholarship.He said that those students who had studied in institutions in metropolitan areas were not eligible to apply.