Advanced skills development through int'l scholarships' gets nod from CDWP.

ISLAMABAD -- Central Working Development Party has approved the revised PC-I of the project `Advanced Skills Development through International ScholarshipsPhase I' and forwarded it to Executive Committee of the National Economic Council for final approval. According to an official source, the project costing up to Rs. 12.46 billion was being implemented under the Prime Minister Knowledge Economy Task Force Initiative with an objective to provide international standard education to the students of various levels who cannot afford to opt such opportunities. The Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) allocation for the project was Rs. 800 million during the year 2019-20. Around 700 students will be sent abroad for study in PhD and Masters under the scholarship programme. The CDWP approved the PC-I on December 9, 2019, in principle, however, constituted a committee headed by Member Science and Technology, comprising membersfrom Ministry of Information Technology, Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, Ministry of Science and Technology...