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    "id": 934734,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it has to be noted that the Committee on Education should come up with proper guidelines and tell this House if publishing the names in leading dailies will assist in the loan recovery process. I have seen young people on social media proposing that they have very good photos that can be used. Some of them are excited that they want to appear in the national newspapers for the first time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, does the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) have any other better method of recovering loans, because the right to education is a basic right? If you go anywhere in the world, the Government has always participated in tuition fees and ensured that the youth get proper training. The Government should look into the issue of technical vocational training. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, it has to be noted that most young people are unemployed. It is not a bad omen, but a reality on the ground that many young people are not employed. Today, through your chairmanship, we were able to meet the digital drivers like Uber and the rest, and most of them are also struggling to be innovative. How can HELB want to parade pictures of loan defaulters in the print media at the expense of the young people? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to request that the Committee should come up with a report at short notice, so that we do not see the pictures of people being put in the national dailies, and yet, there is no proper reasoning as to why HELB is proposing to use this as a loan recovery strategy. They should be told that they should be creative in future. This is retrogressive."
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