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Nearly 80 lakh people getting allowances and stipends
DHAKA, Dec 30, 2019 (BSS) – Under the social safety net program of the
Social Welfare Ministry, 79.25 lakh poor and distressed people are receiving
various types of allowances and education stipends in the fiscal year 2019-
20.
Among 44 lakh elderly people and 17 lakh widows, destitute women, who are
depriving supports of their husbands, each beneficiary is getting Taka 500 as
allowance, an official release said.
A total of 15.45 lakh are being given Taka 750 each per month as disabled
allowance while one lakh disabled children are getting education stipend from
Taka 750 to 1300 each per month.
Each of Primary, secondary, higher-secondary and graduation/post-
graduation students are being given stipends of Taka 700, 800, 1,000 and
1,300 per month respectively.
Besides, one lakh children raised in private orphanages are also getting
capitation grant of 2000 per month and 50 thousand elderly bedes (snake
charmers) and old-age people of underprivileged group are receiving special
allowance of 500.
Around 26,00 transgender people are receiving allowance of Taka 600 per
month while 25,900 children of bede and underprivileged section and 1,247
transgender children’s are getting special stipends.
BSS/PR/TIT/MMR/ARS/1907 hrs