Ahsan Iqbal, the federal minister for planning, development, and special initiatives, revealed on Friday that the government had started an internship programme that will provide 60,000 recent graduates with paid internships around the nation.
The federal minister government announced in a statement that it was also giving scholarships to students who were accepted into the top 25 colleges in the globe.
The minister also mentioned that 100,000 college students would receive computers to help them become more tech-savvy.
“In our previous tenure, we provided one million laptops that resulted in the promotion of free-lancing culture among the youth”, he added.
Iqbal announced awarding 20,000 scholarships to the nation’s unemployed graduates last month. While speaking at an international meeting on higher education and workforce development in Islamabad, he made the announcement.
In addition, according to Ahsan Iqbal, scholarships would be given to students from remote regions of the nation as part of the Youth Development Initiatives (YDI), a programme that was recently introduced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The federal government agreed to reinstate the Prime Minister Laptop Scheme and other various programmes within the Prime Minister’s Youth Program, according to an earlier December 2022 announcement by SAPM on Youth Affairs Shaza Fatima Khawaja (PMYP).
