{"id":15161,"date":"2025-12-08T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/08\/advancing-honhaar-scholarship-reforms\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:24:39","slug":"advancing-honhaar-scholarship-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/08\/advancing-honhaar-scholarship-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Honhaar Scholarship Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The steering committee of the CM Honhaar Scholarship Program met under the chairmanship of the Minister for Higher Education, Rana Sikandar Hayat, to review the program\u2019s next phases and strengthen student access. Chairperson PHEC Prof. Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan (HI, SI) attended the session alongside Secretary Higher Education Department Mr. Ghulam Farid and Special Secretary HED Mr. Tajammal Abbas Rana, reflecting close coordination between provincial education authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Participants conducted a comprehensive review of new phases and merit mechanisms designed to ensure fair selection and transparent awards. Officers from the Punjab Higher Education Commission and the Higher Education Department joined the discussion to align operational details and policy oversight, with an emphasis on maintaining the integrity of the Honhaar Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Committee members also assessed progress on system automation aimed at speeding up applications, verification and disbursement while improving monitoring capabilities. Stakeholders agreed that a modern, automated process will reduce delays and enhance transparency, making the Honhaar Scholarship more efficient and accessible for eligible students across Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan and the education leadership reaffirmed their commitment to implementing the committee\u2019s recommendations and continuing collaboration between PHEC and HED. Ensuring a merit-based, transparent and technologically up-to-date scholarship system for students remains the top priority as the program moves into its next phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honhaar Scholarship reviewed by steering committee to advance automation, merit mechanisms and transparency for students across Punjab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}