<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday declared 2716 privately run educational institutions eligible for monthly payment order (MPO).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Under the MPO scheme the government pays 100 per cent of the basic salaries to the teachers of non-government institutions.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM made the announcement while speaking at the inaugural ceremony of country’s first campus-based business incubator ‘Sheikh Kamal IT Business Incubator’ at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) through video links from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the new MPO beneficiaries are 666 lower secondary schools, 1122 secondary schools, 136 higher secondary schools, 109 higher secondary colleges and 18 degree colleges.</div><div><br></div><div>The new MPO list also includes some 665 educational institutions under the vocational and madrassa education board.</div><div><br></div><div>These are 97 SSC vocational or Dakhil vocational, 200 SSC business management and technology, two diploma in agriculture, 264 Dakhil Madrassa, 85 Alerm Madrassa, six&nbsp; Farazi Madrassa and 11 Kamil Madrassa.</div><div><br></div><div>Along with unveiling the Sheikh Kamal Business Incubator the PM also inaugurated Sheikh Jamal Dormitory and Rosy Jamal Dormitory. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>