New Delhi: Lending support to Kashmiri orphan Zahid Ahmed Qureshi, who cracked this year's IIT entrance examination, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said her ministry would extend all support to complete his engineering education in IITs.

"Spoke to Zahid. My family will pay for his counselling and MHRD (Ministry of Human Resources Development) will arrange his scholarship to facilitate his entire education," Irani said in a tweet.