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The government is now taking several initiatives to promote technical education in order to build a skilled generation capable of grabbing jobs worldwide and give a boost to the economy.
As part of the plan, the government will extend stipends and free books under a Tk 957 crore project among 10 lakh poor and underprivileged students who are interested to take technical education and vocational training.
Some 607,392 students will get stipends while 329,352 will get financial support to buy books.
Moreover, around 7,663 biometric attendance devices will be procured to ensure presence of students in the classes.
A total of 3,389 educational institutions, including state-owned and private polytechnic institutes, technical school and college and the ones that have vocational courses for secondary school certificate and dakhil students, will be served under the project.
The initiative aims at encouraging poor and underprivileged students to be educated, ensuring higher attendance and upgrading quality of education through good academic results, a cut in dropout rate, bringing more girls to schools and stopping child marriage.
It also targets to raise the enrollment rate in technical education to 26 percent by 2025, which now hovers around 14 percent, according to the project proposal.
The project, tenure of which runs from January 2020 to December 2022, is scheduled to be placed in today’s meeting of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec).
From now on, technical centres will get priority instead of the general educational institutions in case of inclusion in the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme, according to education ministry officials.
The government has decided to do so as the number of unemployed people educated in the general line is increasing fast compared to the technical knowledge holders, they said.
Another project to ensure safe water in rural areas by 2025 will also be tabled at today’s Ecnec meeting.
The Department of Public Health Engineering will implement the project at a cost of Tk 8,850 crore between January 2020 to June 2025. The government will finance the project from its own fund.
Earlier on December 24, another Tk 267.35 crore project got Ecnec’s go-ahead, under which over 1 lakh youths across the country will be trained on driving motor vehicles.
(TDS)
