US Congress passes '‘Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act’ for Pakistani women

The US Congress has passed the 'Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act' which will grow the quantity of grants accessible to Pakistani women to get advanced education under a legitimacy and requirements based program. 

Passed by the Place of Delegates in Walk 2020, the bill was passed by the US Senate by a voice vote on January 1. The bill presently heads to the White House for US President Donald Trump to sign into law. 

The bill requires the US Office for Worldwide Advancement to grant at any rate half of grants under a Pakistan-based advanced education grant program to Pakistani ladies, from 2020 to 2022, across a scope of scholarly trains and as per existing qualification rules. 

The bill additionally requires USAID to talk with and influence ventures by the Pakistani private area and Pakistani diaspora in the US to improve and extend admittance to training programs in Pakistan. 

Among other thing, it requires USAID to brief Congress yearly on the quantity of grants granted under the program, including breakdowns by sexual orientation, order, and degree type; the level of beneficiaries who were pushed out of the program for inability to meet program necessities; and the level of beneficiaries who exited school, including because of reprisal for looking for instruction. 

On October 10, 2014, Malala imparted the Nobel Harmony Prize to Indian kids' privileges extremist Kailash Satyarthi for her "battle against the concealment of kids and youngsters and for the privilege, all things considered, to schooling". 

In October 2012, Malala was shot in the head by Pakistani Taliban on her route home from school. In late 2008, she started presenting the defense for admittance to training for ladies and young ladies notwithstanding complaints from the Pakistani Taliban. 

Since 2010, the USAID has granted in excess of 6,000 grants for young ladies to get advanced education in Pakistan. The bill extends this program.