Pakistan invites scholarship applications from Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: Pakistan High Commission in Sri Lanka has welcomed utilizations of Jinnah Scholarship for meriting Sri Lankan understudies to seek after their learns at O Levels and A Levels, as indicated by a news discharge here on Tuesday.

The due date for accommodation of uses is May 31, 2016. The Government of Pakistan is granting Jinnah Scholarships for Sri Lanka O/A level understudies for the most recent decade through its High Commission in Sri Lanka.

The grants are named after the colossal statesman and pioneer of the Sub Continent, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the author of Pakistan.The grants are honored on the premise of a strict criteria including legitimacy and requirement for budgetary help.

Under this program, each effective understudy gets a stipend of SL Rs. 24,000 as help for one year to seek after their studies.The Government of Pakistan is granting the Jinnah EducationalScholarships since 2005 thus far more than 1500 Sri Lankan Students have been profited from this plan.

Amid the previous 11 years roughly Rs 43 million worth of grants have been recompensed for advancing the Sri Lankan youth and the training division in Sri Lanka.During the year 2015, the Government of Pakistan honored over SLRs.3.67 million worth of instructive grants to 154 brilliant SriLankan O/L and A/L understudies under the Jinnah Educational Scholarship program.

The application structures might be gathered from the HighCommission situated at 42 and 44 Bullers Lane, Colombo 7. The structures can likewise be downloaded from the official site of the HighCommission www.pakistanhc.ik.