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"It is planned to adjust the off-campus allocation of students.I am however not able to indicate at this stage the extent of the adjustment because we are still finalizing this issue and I will make an announcement before the end of this month (July), "he said.
Ngaka also explained that the allowance currently attracted no inflationary adjustment solely because it was a budgetary issue.
He added that they had a limited budget against the growing number of students in need of sponsorship saying that if funds allowed, they would look at ways to tie the frequency of adjustment as well as the extent of adjustments to inflationary trends.
He answered the
Gaborone North Haskins Nkaigwa MP, who asked if the ministry had plans to improve the off-campus allocation of tertiary students to P1,900, which was their pre-recession allocation before financial.
They also asked why the allowance did not attract inflationary adjustments and how students had to live with a stagnant allowance over the past eight years.
At the beginning of last year, some parliamentarians called the government by the Ministry of Higher Education. and technology to increase benefits for tertiary students off campus.
It is after the students repeatedly tried to sue ministers at the time to increase their living allowance, but their plea was futile
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