ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday announced initiatives of providing 20,000 internships to young engineers and 75 scholarships to students for studies in the top universities of the world.
The Ministry of Planning and Development will carry out the youth initiatives, which also include spending of Rs 40 billion in 20 most underdeveloped districts and building of 250 mini sports complexes.
Addressing the launching ceremony, the prime minister said the programme would be expanded further and more initiatives would be launched for the youth, who were a considerable part of the population.
Referring to his initiatives as Punjab chief minister, he said the government of Pakistan Muslim League(N) under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif had undertaken different programmes for providing high quality education, scholarships and laptops to millions of students.
The prime minister said his provincial government set up Punjab endowment fund and in eight years Rs 20 billion were given as scholarships to high achievers in studies.
Millions of students were equipped with technical education under the Punjab Skills Development Programme, he recalled.
Hundreds of students were sent to Turkiye and China so that they could learn Turkish and Chinese. Now many of these Chinese speaking Pakistanis were working in project of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as interpreters and translators, Shehbaz added.
About 75,000 vehicles were distributed among people so that they could earn their living, he said during his tenure in Punjab, Danish schools were established so that orphans and children from less privileged backgrounds could get education.
