Essay Writing and Educational Stipends for children of Federal Government Employees

The FEB&GIF (Federal Employees Benevolent and Group Insurance Fund), located at Benevolent Fund Building, Zero Point, Islamabad has a total of six welfare schemes for the Federal Government Employees (and their families).

The schemes related to our discussion are:

• Essay Writing Competition and
• Educational Stipend

Both these schemes are for the children of Federal Government Employees.

Stipend details for Essay Writing Competition

The advertisement for the Essay Writing Competition can be viewed here. Its peculiar details are that the competition is for Matriculate and Undergraduate students who are the children of Federal Government Employees (hereinafter referred to as students). The Matriculate students can write an essay on the topic "How can parents handle their child's cell phone and social media use". The undergraduate students can write an essay on the topic "Influence of Media on our society". The length of the essay for both must be between 1200-1500 words, and the last date for submission of these essays is 30-06-2014.

The essays could be written both in Urdu and in English, and there will be three prize positions both in Urdu and English for both these essays. The 1st position prize of the essay for Matriculate students is Rs. 35,000 while that for the Undergraduate students is Rs. 40,000. For more details, refer to the advertisement given at the above link.

Educational Stipend details

EDUCATION STIPENDS for two children studying in intermediate or above excluding M.Phil/PhD. programs of serving, retired and deceased employees as per following categories:-

Category-I   100% reimbursement of tuition/semester fee for professional studies (medical, IT, Engineering and Business studies) in public sector universities/colleges/institutions.

Category-II Children studying in Intermediate and have obtained 80% marks in the last held examination—Rs. 10,000 p.a.

Category-III  Children studying in Graduation and have obtained 80% marks   in the last held examination—Rs. 12,000 p.a.

Category-IV Children studying in Masters and have obtained 80% marks in the last held examination—Rs. 15,000 p.a.

Category-V Professional studies of Engineering, IT, Business studies and Medical in private universities and, have obtained 70% marks in the last held examination—Rs. 20,000 p.a.