Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Sunday announced Rs one million cash prize for all those students of public sector government schools who made it up among the top ten position holders in their respective BISE in the province.
This cash prize will be in addition to the merit scholarships and other prizes awarded as usual. Every year each of the eight BISEs in KP is awarding a national talent scholarship of Rs 10, 000 per month for two years to the top 25 position holders ie science Group-I7 and Humanities/Arts Group-8 but this announcement is exclusively for the students of government schools where mostly the poor parents sent their siblings.
The chief minister made this announcement while handing over a cheque of Rs 500, 000 to one Faisal a special child from a government High School in Haripur but making it to the top position in the recently declared SSC results by the BISE, Abbottabad.
