Governor announces free scholarships for deserving students to pursue higher education abroad

Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori has announced the launch a free scholarship programme under his special initiatives for students from underprivileged families to help them go abroad to get higher education.

He made this announcement on Monday at a career counselling session held at the Governor House. Renowned educationist and career counsellor Syed Abidi conducted the session and briefed its participants about worldwide scholarship opportunities to secure higher education in developed countries.

Tessori announced that the Governor House would host more such counselling sessions in future to guide prospective students who wanted to get enrolled in foreign universities for higher education.

He said that a cell was being established at the Governor House on an immediate basis to provide necessary assistance to the prospective students to secure scholarships for higher education abroad. The governor appreciated that educationist and counsellorSyed Abidi, had helped so far 15,000 students go abroad to gain higher education successfully. He said more committed and experienced educationists like Abidi should come forward to provide proper guidance to the students about higher education opportunities available in western countries.

He said the beneficiary students of the scholarship programme to be launched by the Governor House wouldn’t be required to pay any fee to any travel or educational services agent for going abroad for higher education.

Tessori said his new initiative would go a long way in brightening the future of Pakistani students from deprived families. He urged the students who took part in the counselling session to ensure that they contributed towards increasing the fame of their native country during education and later in their practical lives.

Tessori said educationist Syed Abidi would continue to provide free counselling and guidance services from the Governor House to students who were willing to go abroad for higher education.

He said the Governor House had been conducting free of charge IT training courses for 50,000 students to enable them to earn up to $400 every month through freelancing of their technology-related services.

He said that so far 850,000 deserving people had received free food ration bags from the Governor House. Tessori said the Governor House had been providing replacement motorcycles to people whose two-wheelers had been stolen and couldn’t be found in six months.

Tessori said such deprived people were given replacement motorbikes on mere presentation of the FIR lodged by the police. He said loans of up to Rs10 million were also given to jobless people who presented feasible business proposals to the Governor House to start earning through entrepreneurship.

He said a “Bell of Hope” had been functional at the Governor House for instant resolution of complaints of aggrieved public. He said that not a single penny from the provincial exchequer had been spent on all these massive welfare initiatives launched by the Sindh government. He said concerned philanthropists had been supporting the Governor House for conducting all these relief drives.