A total of 40 under-graduate students from different academic years of Dhaka University (DU) have been given Sumitomo Corporation Scholarship of Japan on Thursday.
DU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman distributed Sumitomo Corporation Scholarship among the recipients as the chief guest at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban on the campus.
Pro-VC (Academic) Prof Dr A S M Maksud Kamal presided over the function while Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of Japanese Embassy in Dhaka Hiroyuki Yamaya and General Manager of the Sumitomo Corporation Shinichi Nagata addressed the event as special guests.
General Manager (Corporate Affairs) of the Sumitomo Corporation Md Shofiullah announced the names of the awardees. DU Registrar Probir Kumar Sarker conducted the programme.
VC Akhtaruzzaman congratulated the awardees on receiving this prestigious scholarship. He also thanked the Sumitomo Corporation authorities for providing scholarship to meritorious students of DU.
He urged the brilliant students to prepare themselves as skilled human resources as well as worthy citizen to make Bangladesh a prosperous country.
The VC said, a friendly relationship between Bangladesh and Japan has been existing for a long time. He recalled all-out support and cooperation extended by Japanese government in Bangladesh's socio-economic development since the country's independence.
These support and cooperation will be continued in the days to come, he hoped.
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