Dhaka, Oct. 23 -- As a part of its ongoing yearly scholarship distribution program for financially disadvantaged, meritorious students, Chevron Bangladesh hosted a ceremony yesterday at the premises of its Bibiyana Gas Plant. In all, 823 students from 24 educational institutions near Chevron's Bibiyana, Jalalabad and Moulavi Bazar natural gas fields were awarded stipends this year, of which around 64% are females. Also included in the total are 20 scholarships for students who received excellent grades in the recently published results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams. Chevron Bangladesh started the scholarship program with only a small handful of educational institutions nearly two decades ago. The average pass rate of Chevr...