The federal government has decided to add intermediate students to an educational conditional cash transfer project, the Waseela-e-Taleem programme.
As per reports, Ehsaas board will have a meeting on June 24 for the final approval.
Under the project. intermediate students are given cash grants from underprivileged families on the condition of 70 per cent attendance in school.
The Ehsaas Steering Committee has approved the inclusion of higher secondary education in the programme.
With such a development, they added that approximately 700,000 students would get the advantage and the government has planned to allot Rs5 billion worth of funds for the project in the next fiscal year.
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The boys would get worth Rs3,500 cash stipend and girls would get worth Rs4,000 every quarter.
Moreover, students from the 6th to 10th standard would also get conditional cash assistance under this programme According to the plan, boys in the above-mentioned class bracket would get worth Rs2,500 cash assistance and girls would get worth Rs3,000 stipend from July every quarter.
