The government of Bangladesh will distribute stipends to primary school students through mobile financial services (MFS) provider Nagad for 2022-23 fiscal. The Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) will sign an agreement with Nagad soon, according to a media statement. In the last fiscal year, the government paid stipends for education materials to over 1.3 crore primary school children through the MFS provider. Read more: Nagad upgrades system to offer better services The government will bring students at PTI Experimental Schools and Shishu Kallyan Trust-run primary schools under stipends in this fiscal year. For this, the DPE will make necessary reforms to primary education stipend distribution-related guidelines. Muhammad Zahidul Islam, head of public communications of Nagad, said: "We successfully disbursed education stipends and other social safety allowances in the 2021-2022 fiscal at a nominal charge." "We will continue our services in the current fiscal year as well if we are entrusted with the job." Read more: BURO partners with Nagad for easier savings, instalment payments Students are registered on Nagad's digital platform with information from their birth certificates and mobile phone numbers alongside the NIDs of their guardians. So, the students' guardians instantly receive the funds along with cash-out charges in their Nagad wallets once the stipend is disbursed.

The government on Monday disbursed stipends and allowances among 86,452 primary school students through Nagad.

Alamgir Mohammad Mansurul Alam, additional secretary of Primary and Mass Education Ministry, has been made the Director General of the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE).

BNP on Tuesday termed the reported proposal of the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) to send 1,000 government officials abroad to learn how to cook ‘khichuri’ a unique joke under the rule of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.