Government to Give Free Laptops to Top SSC Students in Bangladesh

The government will provide laptops to students who passed this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations, with 100 top-performing students to be selected from each education board.

A source at the Ministry of Education said on Thursday (November 12) that each of the nine general education boards, along with the Technical Education Board and the Madrasa Education Board, would select 100 students with the highest marks in their respective board results. The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) will implement the initiative.

A senior Education Ministry official, speaking to The Daily Campus on condition of anonymity, said, “A total of 100 students with the highest marks in the SSC examination from each board will receive laptops. The procurement wing of DSHE will implement the initiative.”

Asked when the students might receive the laptops, the official said, “We hope it will be possible to distribute the laptops to the students by January next year.”

The results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations were published on August 10. Across the 11 education boards, comprising nine general boards and the madrasa and technical boards, the average pass rate was 62.25 per cent. A total of 106,009 candidates secured GPA-5.

This year, a total of 1,857,344 candidates appeared in the SSC and equivalent examinations under the country's 11 education boards. Of them, 930,305 were boys and 927,039 were girls. Students from 30,666 educational institutions sat for the examinations at 3,885 centres across the country.