THE Higher Education Students’ Loans Board (HESLB) has revealed reasons why some students at different higher learning institutions were yet to be given loans.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam yesterday, the
HESLB Executive Director, Mr Abdu-Razaq Badru, cited some of them as
multiple admissions, discrepancies in application forms and failure to
meet the required criteria. He explained, however, that, as of
yesterday, 29,578 first year students had qualified for loans and that
96.5bn/- had already been disbursed to their respective universities.
The executive director noted that the
money that is required for the first quarter (three months) for the
2017/2018 academic year was 147.06bn/-,which the board had already
received from the government.
The Ministry of Education, Science,
Technology and Vocational Training allocated 427.54bn/- for issuance of
loans to 122,623 students of higher learning institutions in the
2017/2018 Financial Year.
Since Monday this week, hundreds of
students who were yet to receive loans had been thronging to HESLB
offices to press for loans, insisting that they had all the requisite
criteria.
Mr Badru told journalists, however, that
in their application forms, some students failed to provide important
information and documents to prove to the board that they had all the
required criteria.
“Some claimed that they were orphans but
failed to submit approved death certificates of their parents from the
Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA),’’ he revealed.
He stated that some students had
confirmed their universities after getting multiple admissions, but had
switched to others that they perceived as better, while the board had
already disbursed their loans to the original institutions.
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