Islamabad : The Institutional Scholarship Award Committee (ISAC) of the Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship Project held its first meeting at the National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS), Rawalpindi to recommend students who applied for the scholarships.
The meeting evaluated financial needs of the applicants, shortlisted, and recommended the students who fulfilled the defined eligibility criteria of the Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship Project.
Out of 100 applications received at NUMS, 24 students, including 12 female and 12 male students, were recommended by the Committee for the scholarships. The selected students are enrolled in various four and five-year undergraduate degree programmes.
The Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship Project is the largest scholarship project of Pakistan, which aims to provide higher education opportunity to talented youth unable to continue their studies due to financial constraints.
The project aims at promoting human capital investment, as it is imperative to invest in the human capital making the youth technologically skilled to meet the future challenges. Under the project, scholarships are awarded to low-income students enrolled in four and five-year undergraduate programmes.
All students from low-income families studying in undergraduate programmes in public sector universities are eligible to apply. Selection is based on need-cum-merit, i.e., on the basis of the student’s GPA and family income (below a maximum threshold). The scholarship covers tuition fee and a living stipend. Fifty per cent of the scholarships will be awarded to female students, while students with special needs as well as those from remote and disadvantaged areas are also encouraged to benefit from the project.
A total of 132,198 applications have been received for the Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship Project. In current fiscal year, 50,000 scholarships will be awarded to most deserving students who fulfill criteria of the project.