Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved the revised PC-I of the project `Advanced Skills Development through International Scholarships- Phase 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 12.46 billion rupees is being implemented under the Prime Minister's Knowledge Economy Task Force Initiative.

Its objective is to provide international standard education to the students of various levels who cannot afford to avail such opportunities.

Under the scholarship programme, around 700 students will be sent abroad for study in PhD and Masters.

(NNR/Abdul Rehman)