Islamabad July 15 2022: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Shaza Fatima Khawaja announced the relaunch of Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme.
Through this initiative, laptops will be distributed among students from different universities and colleges across Pakistan.
In a meeting with various journalists SAPM said that Prime Minister’s Youth Programme was initiated in 2013 with the goal of empowering our young population. She told media persons that merit will be upheld in the laptop scheme. A special quota has been reserved for the students from Balochistan,and the number of laptops to be distributed there have been doubled. Additionally, 50 percent quota has been specified for women in laptop scheme.
Shaza Fatima Khawaja informed journalists that a task force has been established and Government is aiming towards raising IT Exports to USD 15 billion.
Pakistan IT exports surged 25 percent to USD 2.38 billion in the first eleven months of this fiscal year, which runs from July to June, mostly riding a massive stream of investment pouring into Pakistan’s technology sector.
