Monday, October 26, 2009
Islamabad
National Internship Programme (NIP) has sent 24,139 applications to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for verification to induct young graduates in its third batch.
The last date for the submission of application forms is November 10, and 26,408 online applications have been received so far, said Director General NIP Ashiq Hussain Abbasi in an interview with APP.
He said out of the received applications, 18,338 male and 8,070 female graduates have applied to get benefit from the Programme. The applicants who applied for NIP include 10,445 from Punjab, 397 from the federal area, 8,986 from Sindh, 5,211 from NWFP, 249 from Balochistan, 488 from FATA, 272 from Northern Areas and 360 from Azad Jammu & Kahsmir.
Ahsiq Hussain informed that the government has already announced a Special Internship Programme for the graduates of Malakand Division, giving them relaxation in the upper age limit to 27 with a minimum qualification of a graduation degree. The last date for the Special Internship Programme for the areas of Swat, Upper and Lower Dir, Shangla, Chitral, Buner, and Malakand is October 31.
He said 6,300 applications, including 5,163 from males and 1,137 from females, have been received for the Special Internship Programme, and added that 3,000 applications have been forwarded to HEC for verification. The DG said that 1,690 students from Malakand, 1,780 from Swat, 437 from Buner, 234 from Shangla, 401 from Upper Dir, 1,381 from Lower Dir, and 383 students from Chitral have applied so far.
Giving details of the selection process, he said the applications are scrutinised by sending them to HEC for degree and institution verification while other relevant particulars of an applicant are verified through Nadra by paying it a fee of Rs10 per application. He said HEC is carrying out the verification in close coordination with the relevant institutions.
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