The Technical and Madrasah Education Division, Nagad, and the Directorate Of Posts recently signed an agreement to distribute stipends to technical and madrasa students. The main objective of the initiative is to disburse the stipend among the students in a timely and transparent manner. Read: Nagad to partner LankaBangla in furthering financial inclusion Students can visit any Nagad Uddokta point and withdraw their stipend without any charge. Md Shafayet Alam, executive director of Nagad said, "We have been successfully disbursing allowances and stipends with transparency in association with the government's various types of financial inclusion efforts." "We have now become involved in the disbursement of stipends to technical and madrasa students." Read Nagad to partner LankaBangla in furthering financial inclusion

The overwhelming majority of some 164,009 underprivileged and meritorious students who have received stipends, tuition fees, admission fees and medical grants from the PM’s Education Assistance Trust used their bKash accounts.

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Shahab Uddin on Saturday said that the government will gradually bring all underprivileged and needy people under the ambit of the social security net or nets.