A number of students of Magura Polytechnic Institute are facing uncertainty to continue their education as they are not getting the stipend from the Skill Training Enhancement Project (STEP), although they are supposed to get.
Some 44 students of the institute are eligible for availing the stipend.
Under the STEP project, an eligible student can get Tk2400 per month. The World Bank (WB) had provided the fund for the project in 2011.
Established in 2008, the polytechnic institute fulfilled all the requirements for availing the fund to provide its students with the stipend.
Mamun Hossen, a student of the polytechnic institute, said: “My parents are not able to bear my educational expenses. I took admission here hopping that I will get the stipend.”
“I am working in a grocery shop to earn some amount of money for continuing my education,” he said.
“If I would have got the stipend, I could have finished my education with full concentration in my study,” he added. Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, another student Osman Goni, told that failing ensure a source for meeting up the expenses of his education, he has begun working as a day labourer.
“What else I can do? I want to complete my education,” he said.
Dr Mollah Morad Hossen, principal of the polytechnic institute, said they have already written to the director general of the directorate of technical education informing the matter. Some 1,514 students are studying at the institute.