ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will launch in Quetta on Wednesday a fee reimbursement scheme for less developed areas.

The scheme is aimed at encouraging talented students of less developed areas in their pursuit of higher education by reimbursing full cost of educational expenses of post-graduate students undertaking Masters, M.Phill and PhD level degrees.

Chairperson of the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme Maryam Nawaz Sharif said the students doing post-graduate studies from an HEC-approved educational institution and domiciled in interior of Sindh, Southern Punjab (Multan, Bahawalpur and DG Khan), Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Kohistan and DI Khan), Gilgit-Baltistan and Fata were eligible.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2014