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Executive Summary
National ICT Outreach
Scholarship Program is being run on cost sharing basis between the
National ICT R&D Fund and the Federal Government under PSDP allocation.
In the year 2007,
National ICT R&D Fund has offered the outreach scholarships to 390
students. These students were enrolled in the ICT
related degree programs of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering
Sciences and Technology, National University of Computer and Emerging
Sciences (FAST-NU) and NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT).
In the Phase-II of
the Outreach Scholarships Program, National ICT R&D Fund awarded fully
funded scholarships to the successful students from the Boot camps of
Phase -I. In the year 2007, 300 successful students belonging to the
non-metropolitan areas of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan provinces were
enrolled in the undergraduate programs offered at the National University
of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NU) under this project.
National ICT R&D Fund
has funded the fully paid scholarships to all these students. The average
scholarship amount is approximately Rs.1.3 million per student for the
period of four years.
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