Bangladesh, March 24 -- The Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL), a leading private commercial bank of Bangladesh, has awarded scholarships worth Tk 41.9 million to the country's 500 brilliant and underprivileged students as part its corporate social responsibility (CRS) programmes.
Governor of Bangladesh Bank Fazle Kabir handed over the scholarship cheques to the students as the chief guest at an award-giving ceremony at the Officers Club in the city on Saturday.
The scholarship recipients are from different colleges, medical colleges and universities.
Among the 500 recipients, 160 were male and 140 female students of secondary school certificate (SSC) level, and 120 male and 80 female students of higher secondary certificate (HSC) lev...