Source Layer: Exiles are scraping Kosovo's state budget, thousands of applications for textbooks from diaspora

The Ministry of Education is in trouble since it was decided that parents would buy their own textbooks and then transfer money to their bank accounts. The ministry will allocate 80 euros for the purchase of textbooks and school materials for a student.

In application through the platform and Kosovo, although difficulties are being presented in some cases, another problem has already emerged from this ministry. Periscope has found that for subsidising textbooks for primary school students are also applying individuals who do not live at all in Kosovo. Sources within the Ministry of Internal Affairs have told Periscopi that there are thousands of cases that fellow countrymen who are currently not living in Kosovo are applying for subsidising textbooks for their children. And that's embarrassing the MPB because it's not finding a way to stop this phenomenon.

Thousands of exiles are applying to get the money for textbooks. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is aware of this phenomenon and it's in trouble that you can stop this”, the source told Periscope.

Periscop contacted. MPBs regarding these claims but that the contact numbers of this dictatorship have not been accessible.

Periscop sent e-mails to this ministry's intensive care office, but until the publication of this text, we have not received answers.

The government of the Republic of Kosovo on Wednesday has allocated 6,323,380 euros for subsidies to textbooks for 1-5 classes, and 6,617,340 euros for subsidisation of school materials for 1-9 classrooms.

Until Monday we left behind, in Kosovo's subvention of textbooks have applied 32 thousand and 800 residents, officials from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology have announced.

THE MAST decision and the initial failure of this ministry to reach agreement with publishing houses has been widely criticised in Kosovo. The way of subvention through online application is seen by experts as access to abuse.

From the opposition, they have estimated that this approach would cost much more to the state budget than the agreement with publishing houses which the ministry has said have blown prices this year.

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According to AKS data from the last census made in 2011, the number of residents in Kosovo has been 1 million 820 thousand and 631, the number of non-resident people from Kosovo appears to be 703,978 persons.

We remember that the Kosovo government has failed this month to begin with the process of registering the population as it was envisioned, on September 1st, 2023. Prime Minister Albin Kurti has blamed Kosovo's association within the Central Commission's census. “Although preparations were made against resistance produced even within the Central Commission's registration of the Kosovo Communists Association, the process cannot be started before November 1st, 2023. So, two months later, because of the inability of the Kosovo Statistics Agency that, late on being caused to plan details. Kurt said.

This process has been delayed for two months. /Periscopi/