Islamabad, The Worker Welfare Fund has announced that they are going to award 5,000 scholarships to the brilliant but needy students of various levels who showed their brilliant performance during their academic year but they cannot continue their education due to their week financial position.

Worker Welfare Fund is a statuary body of Ministry of Human Resources Development whose account is with Accountant General Pakistan Revenue and it came into being in 1971 as a result of Workers Welfare Fund Ordinance, 1971. With the 18th amendment in the constitution this fund was transferred to the provinces. This fund is functioning with the objective to provide low rented accommodation to its registered workers. This fund also provides necessary assistance to the labour on the marriages of their daughters and financial aid to the heir of the deceased workers. It is also mandated for managing the fund according to the rules and regulations and use this fund for the welfare of the workers which is collected from for fund sources and placed it for the welfare of the registered workers.