Punjab Government has planned to distribute 100,000 laptops amongst the top achievers in MS (Hons.), MA, MSC, LLB programmes, said an advertisement published in today’s papers.
All those students who achieved more than 60 percent marks in last annual examination or scored more than 70 percent in their last semester are eligible for the offer.
In addition, all registered students for MS, LLM, Ph.d and M.Phil will also get a free laptop.
Top 100 position holders from all Punjab boards in their matriculation examinations are going to get free laptops too.
Eligibility Criteria
One hundred thousand Laptops will be provided to following categories of youth in Punjab:
In case of 1st year students, the data for the last examination in which the student appeared, shall be considered.
Check if your name is in the list or not:
To see if your name was selected in the list or not, click on this link: http://www.youth.punjab.gov.pk/selectedstudents.aspx
Note
In any case, if you are not listed there or you have any concerns then you must get to your board/university registrar to resolve the dispute.
Listed students can get themselves registered by clicking the this link before December 31st, 2011.
On a side note, Mr. Shahbaz Sharif has advertised his Twitter and Facebook IDs on the same advert, which I believe is somewhat unethical. He’s using public ad to promote his personal channels. I won’t complain if he wants to advertise these channels through his own ads, paid from his own pocket.