0.5m laptops to be distributed by 2020

Islamabad: Chairperson of the Prime Minister Youth Programme Leila Khan has said 0.5 million laptops will be distributed among talented and deserving students by 2020 across the country along with broadband Internet devices to improve their learning through technology.

In a statement, she said the federal government’s initiative taken in 2014 under the Prime Minister’s Scheme for Provision of laptops was aimed at encouraging and supporting deserving students to digitalise the mode of studies in public sector universities. Leila Khan said the scheme’s primary objective was also to assist students from middle and lower middle class to use latest qualitative tools for their research studies.