UNB, Dhaka :
The government is planning to provide financial assistance for ensuring admission of the poor and meritorious students in educational institutions.
A policy is also being framed to provide one-off financial support to the students in cases of sustaining critical injury by way of any accident.
These were revealed in an advisory council meeting of the Prime Minister’s Education Assistant Trust Fund with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at her Tejgaon office here Sunday.
Briefing the reporters after the meeting, PM’s Press Secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhuri said that a policy to provide financial assistance for ensuring admission of the poor and meritorious students in schools and colleges would reduce the number of dropouts.
Addressing the meeting, the Prime Minister called upon the affluent section of the country to donate to the fund generously to help the poor yet meritorious students continue their education.
She also asked the officials to take initiatives to raise the fund of the trust constituted with seed money of Taka 1000 crore.
Sheikh Hasina said that the number of stipends from the Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust Fund would be increased gradually to help continue the higher education of the poor and meritorious students.
She said the fund was created with TK 1000 crore seed money through enacting a law so that the system could not be annulled with a change in government.
The Prime Minister said from now on the stipends from the Prime Minister’s Education Trust Fund would be given simultaneously on a single day across the country.
She said the main aim of her government is to build a poverty-free Bangladesh through providing education to the people, as there is no alternative to education to free the country from the curse of poverty.
Necessary measures are being implemented to further reduce the rate of poverty by another 10 percent during the current tenure of the government, she added.
Sheikh Hasina said in order to ensure the best utilisation of the country’s youth forces, the government attaches due importance to vocational and technical education for enriching the country’s human resources.
Sheikh Hasina said the government has taken an initiative to provide residential arrangements for the students of schools situated in the remote and char areas of hilly and coastal regions.
The government constituted the Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust Fund in the fiscal year 2012-2013 with TK 1000 crore to support the poor and brilliant female students continue their higher studies. But, in 2013-2014 male students were also included in the programme.
Under the programme students are being provided scholarships with the proceeds of the fund deposited in five commercial banks.
In the 2012-2013 fiscal year a total of 1,16,000 female students were awarded scholarships of about TK 73 crore from the fund while in 2013-2014 a total of 1,74,446 male and female students were awarded the scholarship of over TK 98 crore.
The government is planning to provide financial assistance for ensuring admission of the poor and meritorious students in educational institutions.
A policy is also being framed to provide one-off financial support to the students in cases of sustaining critical injury by way of any accident.
These were revealed in an advisory council meeting of the Prime Minister’s Education Assistant Trust Fund with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at her Tejgaon office here Sunday.
Briefing the reporters after the meeting, PM’s Press Secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhuri said that a policy to provide financial assistance for ensuring admission of the poor and meritorious students in schools and colleges would reduce the number of dropouts.
Addressing the meeting, the Prime Minister called upon the affluent section of the country to donate to the fund generously to help the poor yet meritorious students continue their education.
She also asked the officials to take initiatives to raise the fund of the trust constituted with seed money of Taka 1000 crore.
Sheikh Hasina said that the number of stipends from the Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust Fund would be increased gradually to help continue the higher education of the poor and meritorious students.
She said the fund was created with TK 1000 crore seed money through enacting a law so that the system could not be annulled with a change in government.
The Prime Minister said from now on the stipends from the Prime Minister’s Education Trust Fund would be given simultaneously on a single day across the country.
She said the main aim of her government is to build a poverty-free Bangladesh through providing education to the people, as there is no alternative to education to free the country from the curse of poverty.
Necessary measures are being implemented to further reduce the rate of poverty by another 10 percent during the current tenure of the government, she added.
Sheikh Hasina said in order to ensure the best utilisation of the country’s youth forces, the government attaches due importance to vocational and technical education for enriching the country’s human resources.
Sheikh Hasina said the government has taken an initiative to provide residential arrangements for the students of schools situated in the remote and char areas of hilly and coastal regions.
The government constituted the Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust Fund in the fiscal year 2012-2013 with TK 1000 crore to support the poor and brilliant female students continue their higher studies. But, in 2013-2014 male students were also included in the programme.
Under the programme students are being provided scholarships with the proceeds of the fund deposited in five commercial banks.
In the 2012-2013 fiscal year a total of 1,16,000 female students were awarded scholarships of about TK 73 crore from the fund while in 2013-2014 a total of 1,74,446 male and female students were awarded the scholarship of over TK 98 crore.
