PM launches Rehmatul-Lil Alameen scholarship program for all Pakistanis including non-Muslims

Rehmatul-Lil Alameen scholarship program has been launched by the Prime Minister Imran Khan for intermediate and undergraduate students. He said that the scholarship will be available to all the Pakistanis including non-Muslims.

According to media reports, the Prime Minister has officially launched the Rehmatul-Lil Alameen scholarship program in ceremony in Islamabad on Thursday.

Speaking on the occasion, Imran Khan said that the federal government will annually provide five point five billion rupees for seventy thousand scholarships. Under the scholarship program, he said a total of three hundred and fifty thousand scholarships will be provided in five years at a cost of twenty eight billion rupees. he provincial governments of Kyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab will also separately provide scholarship to the students.

The Prime Minister has reaffirmed the commitment to build Pakistan as a great nation on the State of Madina’s principles of rule of law and focus on education. He noted that no nation can make progress without education and the present government is especially focusing on the education sector with the aim that our youth learn from the Sunnah of Hazrat Muhammad Sallallaho Alaihe Wa Salam Khatim-un-Nabiyeen.

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Imran Khan further stated that under the umbrella of Ehsaas program, several programs have been started for the relief of under privileged segments of the society. He said the network of Koi Bhooka Na Soye will be expanded to the entire country.

The Premier also commended the governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for deciding to provide the universal health coverage to the people. He said the struggle launched for supremacy of law will be won by us and no country can move forward without bringing the powerful people under the ambit of law.

Addressing the ceremony, the Federal Minister for Education, Shafqat Mahmood said Rehmatul-Lil Alameen scholarship is a nationwide program and it will be implemented in one hundred and twenty nine universities across the country.

The Education Minister has said that fifty percent scholarships will be given to the women whilst two percent to the disabled persons. He was confident that this program will bring revolution in the education sector.