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"content": "A BILL TO AMEND THE HELB ACT THAT, in view of the inequitable and unstructured distribution of loans managed by the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) for students in institutions of higher learning; aware that the funds distribution has tended to favour students from urban areas and highly populated regions of this country; cognizant of the need to provide all young persons with equal opportunities to acquire knowledge and specialized skills; this House do grant leave for the introduction of a Bill for an Act of Parliament to amend the Higher Education Loans Board Act, Cap.213A of the Laws of Kenya, to provide for a decentralized Constituency Higher Education Loans Scheme (CHELS) to ensure equitable distribution of loans' funds at the constituency level to students in both regular and parallel programmes studying in public and private universities and for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith."
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