MULTAN: Prime Minister’s Youth Programme Chairperson Maryam Nawaz says that the laptop scheme will start from June 20 and the scheme for giving interest-free loans to the youth will initiate in the last week of the current month.

She stated this on Tuesday during a ceremony to distribute cheques for fee reimbursement scheme among the postgraduate students of three divisions of south Punjab studying in public sector universities.

Addressing the ceremony at Bahauddin Zakariya University’s Jinnah Auditorium, Ms Nawaz said the youth was the asset to the country and the best investment was providing them with opportunities for higher education and making them useful citizens.

She said the PML-N government was introducing multiple development schemes for south Punjab.

“The government is going to launch the metro bus project in Multan while I am also delighted and inspired by long flyovers in the city and for which credit goes to Shahbaz Sharif,” she said.

APP ads: Maryam said the government would annually provide 100,000 laptops to students doing MA, MS, M. Phil and PhD.

She said the government would reimburse fee of the students of less-developed areas before Ramazan.

Published in Dawn, June 11th, 2014