Sindh CM announces one lakh scholarships for matric and inter students

Karachi: The Chief Minister of Sindh, Murad Ali Shah has said that the scholarships will be given to aspirants who secure A+ in matric and inter annual exams of worth one lakh each.

As per the chief minister of Sindh, education will get the largest amount of the budget in the upcoming fiscal year as compared to the earlier years.

He also added that almost 49,000 jobs have been created for the next fiscal year.

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While addressing the conference, Murad said that education’s got the lion’s share of Sindh budget 2017-18, as Rs202 billion have been reserve for this zone.

Total Rs5b would be spent on new and present universities as well as colleges across the province.

Rs1.5b would be given to the girl aspirants in scholarships.

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The school management committees would be given Rs1b for improving the quality of education.

Almost Rs8b from the education budget will be provided to the Sindh Education Foundation.