The government has taken an in-principle decision to include 1,089 independent, grant-receiving Ebtedayee madrasas in the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme, subject to conditions. The Technical and Madrasah Education Division has been instructed to bring under the MPO scheme those 1,089 Ebtedayee madrasas that have fulfilled the conditions set out in the MPO policy issued this year. The division accepted MPO applications from more than 1,500 grant-receiving independent Ebtedayee madrasas from Jul 8 to 15. According to the Technical and Madrasah Education Division, there are 1,519 grant-receiving independent Ebtedayee madrasas in Bangladesh. Beyond these, there are an additional 5,932 independent Ebtedayee madrasas in the country that do not receive any government grants.
