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Summary Federal govt will pay tuition fee of postgraduate students from Balochistan, Fata and G-B.
In this regard, an amount of Rs500 million has been allocated in the current financial year.Higher Education Commission (HEC) media coordinator Murtaza Noor said the government would bear academic, incidental or mandatory fees charged by educational institutions as one-off or on a per semester basis along with the tuition fee of the students.Fee expenditure would be ensured through a transparent and well-defined mechanism.The students having valid domicile/local certificate of Balochistan, Fata and Gilgit-Baltistan and enrolled on merit in the higher educational institutions in Balochistan, Fata and Gilgit-Baltistan would be eligible for the scheme, he said.In addition, students belonging to Fata and enrolled in the higher educational institutions of KP would also be considered eligible.The scheme would be introduced initially for five years, beginning in the fiscal year 2012-13, with the provision that those students who join the scheme in the last year (2016-17) would continue to be funded until they complete their academic program.The authorities have stopped fresh enrolment under a federal government-funded scholarship program for talented students from Federally Administered Tribal Areas to get free education in leading schools and colleges of the country.The program titled ‘provision of quality education to talented students of Fata and Balochistan’ was designed in 2006 on the directives of then President Pervez Musharraf to provide quality education to talented students of tribal areas and Balochistan. The program was formally launched in 2007, sources said.They said that under the program up to now 174 students had been enrolled in leading schools and 460 students in technical and commerce colleges of the country, where they were getting education free of cost.It was further said that the government had so far paid educational institutions the fee of up to Rs106,000 per student per annum from grade 7th to 12th and Rs40,000 to each of those studying in technical and commerce educational institutions.
