Laptops distribution from 13th March Under PM Laptop Scheme Phase III

LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Higher Education, Syed Raza Ali Gillani has said the process of distribution of one lakh and 15 thousand laptops among universities’ students would commence from March 13.

He said this while presiding over a departmental meeting at Civil Secretariat on Wednesday. Secretary Higher Education Department Naseem Nawaz and representatives of private universities and Punjab Higher Education Commission attended the meeting.

In the beginning, public sector universities’ students would be given laptops according to the laid-down criteria and merit. However, the Punjab government has also decided to give five thousand laptops to the talented and deserving students of private universities so that they could equally benefit from this beneficial scheme aimed at improving access of low-income families’ students to the digital world.

The meeting pondered over the distribution of laptops in private universities’ students and observed that merit and transparency would be fully ensured. Raza Gillani said that provision of laptops to the private universities’ students is another ‘first’ of the Punjab government, adding that this would help the students to improve their access to the latest knowledge-trends. He further said that latest top of the line, I-7 laptops have been procured for the students.