The Ehsaas Education Stipends programme aims at providing financial assistance to the deserving households for the education of their children at primary, secondary and higher secondary levels. She said all education stipends would be paid biometrically to mothers on attainment of 70 percent attendance of their children. She said as part of ‘Post-COVID-Ehsaas Strategy’, Ehsaas Education Stipends would empower the deserving families to overcome financial barriers in accessing higher education. Also, it was limited to 5th grade and not including secondary education, whereas the latter could be of high impact. On the other hand, Ehsaas Education Stipends challenges is a cost-effective institutional infrastructure developed to be implement program nationwide with reliance on NGOs eliminated.

Source: The Nation September 02, 2021 02:03 UTC