Educational stipends are awarded to the talented, most deserving and financially distressed students across Pakistan regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or gender.

To be eligible, you must have secured at least 60% marks in Matric and Intermediate exams. You are also required to be doing well in your current university / college examinations. In addition, need-based factors also play a vital role in the evaluation of your application.

All applicants are required to submit University Level Application form via the web-based system

The system will ask you for your CNIC number so that it can ascertain whether you are a new student or a previous beneficiary of Diya. For the time being, the continuing students have to download our Renewal Form and submit via email to apply@diyapak.org.

The submitted application form will be reviewed by Diya’s approval team. Depending upon the number of applications, this may take anywhere from 10-15 working days.

If your application is accepted by the approval team, it will be assigned a specific Case Number and you will be asked to furnish documents. The documents shall be submitted to Diya’s Rawalpindi office within 15 days of receipt of this email.

Your documents will be scrutinized to make sure that there is no discrepancy between the information submitted earlier on and the evidences submitted thereof. This is why it is very important to provide true information in your application form.

Depending upon the number of cases submitted for review, it may take anywhere from 10-15 working days for Diya's team to process your documents. If your documents are complete in all respects, a stipend cheque shall be issued in your favour and dispatched via registered post.

In case, your documents are found to be incomplete, our team will send you a notification via email.

Through out the processing of your case, you’ll be able to monitor the updated status of your case via our Application Tracking System.

In majority of the cases, our assistance is limited to students enrolled in public institutes of learning with low tuition fee and expenditures. This ensures that our stipend amount is of significant assistance to the beneficiary.

You may apply if you come from a low-income background but please note that we do not encourage such applications.