SWABI, June 23: A total of 334 students of the NWFP and the tribal region have qualified the screening test for a scholarship offered under the ministry of information technology’s Outreach Programme.

The successful students will now take the entry test of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology for admission to its information and communications technology programme.

Officials said the test was given at all major government colleges in the district headquarters of the NWFP and the tribal region. Twenty-three test centres had been established and 674 students took the test held on June 17.

Sources said the students who had qualified the screening test were now being trained at the GIK institute for its entry test, which would be given on July 1. Successful students would be awarded a scholarship for a four-year undergraduate programme from the National Information and Communication Technology Research and Development fund.