The Ministry of Education gave good news for the students

News Desk: The government will give stipends to secondary, higher secondary level school, college and madrasa students across the country as well as tuition fees. The Ministry of Education has requested an application from the students for this. Students will be able to apply from March 16.

The application was sought from the Prime Minister's Education Assistance Trust of the Ministry of Education by issuing a notification in this regard last Tuesday (March 8). According to the notification, the Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (General) and the Bangladesh Madrasa Board of Education will provide stipends, tuition fees and other benefits to financially indigent students studying in classes VI to XII in secondary and higher secondary level educational institutions across the country. Applications are invited for inclusion in the integrated stipend program of educational institutions including municipal areas of city and district headquarters.

Application Rules:

1. Educational institutions that are not covered by the integrated stipend program must have permission or recognition from the Board of Education to be included in the program. Both public and private MPOs and non-MPOs can apply.

2. In order to be included in the integrated stipend program, the resolution of approval of the managing committee / governing body of the private educational institution, attested photocopy of the permission or recognition letter from the board of education and the cooperation agreement will be signed by the education institution through the chief upazila / thana secondary education officer. In the absence of the Managing Committee / Governing Body, the Cooperation Agreement shall be signed by the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (in case of Upazila) and in the case of Metropolitan Area by the concerned District Education Officer instead of the signature of the President. A sample copy of the cooperation agreement can be found at the office of the Upazila / Thana Secondary Education Officer or on the website of Mausi and the Prime Minister's Education Assistance Trust.

3. Earlier, secondary level (sixth-tenth) educational institutions in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna metropolitan areas were not included in any stipend scheme / program. At present, educational institutions in the area can also be covered under the stipend program.

4. Apart from 3 hill districts of the country, secondary level educational institutions in the municipal areas of 81 district headquarters were not included in the integrated stipend program. At present, all the educational institutions in the municipal areas of the district headquarters will be covered under the integrated stipend program. Educational institutions that were previously included in a stipend scheme are not required to apply for a new inclusion in the program. However, in this case, the Upazila / Thana Secondary Education Officers will send their list along with the Scheme Director to get the user IDs and passwords of those institutions.

5. There is no need to apply anew to the higher education institutions which were earlier included in the "Higher Secondary Stipend Scheme". . As there is no mention in the scheme document of the Integrated Stipend Program that any educational institution or branch approved by the Technical Education Board will be covered under this program, such students will not get stipend under this stipend program. However, a proposal has been sent to the Department of Secondary and Higher Education to revise the scheme document to include the educational institutions taught in the Business Management (BM) branch under the Technical Education Board at the higher secondary level in this program. If the proposal is approved, BM students will be included in the stipend program. . In order to be included in the integrated stipend program of any educational institution, the application form along with the required information (described in Rule 2) has to be submitted to the office of the concerned Upazila / Thana Secondary Education Officer urgently. After receiving the application, the relevant USEO / TSEO information should be checked and selected and the application form along with its recommendation should reach the office of the Skin Director by March 18. Note that the hard copy of the application should be sent by post to Shiksha Bhaban, 2nd Block, 5th Floor, Secondary and Higher Department, Bangladesh, Dhaka-1000 ([email protected]).

No application will be accepted after the due date or any new educational institution will be included in the program. Therefore, the Heads of the concerned educational institutions and the USEO / Thana Secondary Education Officers are specially requested to provide the opportunity to the poor students to get the stipend by sending the application form within the stipulated time.