Ahsan directs expediting 'Laptop for All Scheme'

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior and Planning Professor Ahsan Iqbal Tuesday directed the concerned officials to finalise the ambitious ‘Laptop For All Scheme’ as soon as possible.

Chairing a meeting in connection with Laptop For All Scheme, he said the laptop had become necessity of each university student.

"Government provides laptops to 100,000 students every year on merit and yet the need is to ensure providing the laptops to remaining students on easy installments."

He said students must be provided computers to enable them to remain competitive in such digital age.

He directed Banks, Higher Education Commission (HEC) to join hands for introducing an easy financing Scheme for fulfilling the needs of students pursuing higher studies. The meeting was attended by the heads of Higher Education Commission, Scheduled Banks and Education Department.