Scholarships worth Rs 2 billion have been distributed among 40,000 position holding students, under the endowment fund announced by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. Around 37 students from all over Punjab have been sent to different universities in Asia and Europe by the Punjab government. This was revealed in a meeting at the Rawalpindi commissioner office by Commissioner Imdad-ullah Bosal.
Manager Monitoring and Disbursement Endowment Fund Naveed Ahmed, briefed the officers at the meeting. Imdad appointed directors of colleges as focal persons at the divisional level, while DCOs would be the focal persons on a district level.
