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Lingayen – Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. will lead the awarding of Php17.7 million scholarship grants to 1,770 provincial scholars enrolled in the Pangasinan State University (PSU) on January 30 and February 6 at the Sison Auditorium, here.

Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr. and Board Member and Liga ng mga Barangay Provincial President Amado “Pogi” Espino, III will join Gov. Espino in the awarding rites where each scholar will receive Php10,000 financial grant for school year 2015-2016 (Php 5,000 per semester).

Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr., Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr. and Board Member and Liga ng mga Barangay Provincial President Amado “Pogi” Espino, III are set to award P17.7-M scholarship grants to some 1,770 scholars enrolled in various PSU campuses on January 30 and February 6 at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen. /File Photo

As of latest report, the Espino administration supports a total of 2,522 scholars composed of: 1,770 provincial scholars, 290 technical-vocational (tech-voc) scholars, Provincial Scholarship Fund Board (PSFB) grantees — 386 highly competitive college students, 59 National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) scholars and 17 Federation of Pangasinan Muslim Association (FPMA).

PSU campuses are clustered in a series of distribution: Jan. 30, Saturday (Sta. Maria, Asingan, Urdaneta City and San Carlos City); and Feb. 6, Saturday (Bayambang, Infanta, Binmaley, Alaminos City and Lingayen).

With the allocation of more funds to sustain the scholarship program of the provincial government intended for financially-challenged yet intellectually-gifted PSU students, Governor Espino has approved the addition of 520 more scholarship slots to the existing 1,250 to accommodate more deserving PSU students.

The number of provincial scholarship grantees in PSU for the present school year is broken down as follows: Alaminos City (150), Asingan (150), Bayambang (300), Binmaley (75), Infanta (75), Lingayen (400), San Carlos City (220), Sta. Maria (150) and Urdaneta City (250).

PSU Scholarship Program Coordinator Erlinda Fernandez said that the number of provincial scholarship grantees increases annually since Governor Espino assumed governorship in 2007.

From barely 50 student scholars from Binmaley and Bayambang campuses of PSU during the term of Espino as second district congressman in 2001, the project was expanded in 2007 during his the first term as Governor with 500 scholars.

In June 2010, the scholarship program increased to 1,000 slots; 200 more grantees were added in 2011.

It was learned that since 2007 to 2015, a total of 1,219 provincial scholarship grantees have graduated from their respective courses in PSU; the latest addition of which is 371 provincial scholars who finished their bachelor’s degrees last year.

It can be recalled that last September, about 290 provincial government-supported scholars have finished their technical-vocational (tech-voc) courses under the Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) that was allocated by the provincial government./Mark Gerry Naval Oblanca

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