NSB felicitates Hapan winners

The annual Hapan Scholarship Awards Ceremony 2012, was held recently on a grand scale at Temple Trees and the students throughout the island, who have had excelled in the year five Scholarship Examination of the year 2012 were felicitated and facilitated at this function .

First Lady, Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa at the Hapan Scholarship Awards Ceremony

The salient feature of this year's function was the distinguished participation of the First Lady, Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the gracious wife of the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the Chief Guest and gracing the occasion. On this occasion, the First Lady stressed the fact that the time had come to think and act more wisely, for the sake of this children, by the elders as well as the entire society, to protect the world of children, who are awaiting to take over the future of our country.

At this annually organized function , the children among the first 15 students , who had scored highest marks islandwide including both Sinhala and Tamil mediums and holding Hapan, Post Office, NRFC and Smile accounts of NSB, were awarded scholarships and felicitated. This year, 183 children, covering all 25 districts of the country, including the North and the Eastern Provinces, received scholarships.It is also worthy to note that the NSB is felicitating the every student, who has got through the scholarship examination on branch level too. In addition to the above , medals and prizes of NSB were also awarded this time to the 27 students who won the Golden, Silver and Bronze medals in the Mathematics and Science Olimpiad competition held at Calcutta, India recently. It is also significant to note that this was the first time, that Sri Lanka could obtain Gold Medal in a series of International Science and Maths olimpiard competition of this nature.

On this occasion, whilst Bandula Gunawardana, the Minister of Education, Gitanjana Gunawardana, the deputy Minister, Sunil S. Sirisena, Chairman, NSB, Sumanadasa Abegunawardhana, Working Director, Lionel P. Fernando, Director, H. M. Hennayake Bandara, GM/CEO of NSB participated as special guests and the Higher Management of the Bank, top officials from the Ministry of Education, the recipient children and their parents and altogether around thousand invitees participated at the function. The NSB, under it's Corporate Social Responsibility Programme for the children of the country, awards these scholarships annually since the year 2003 and the NSB also organizes a series of scholarship seminar island wide annually.

The children, who open accounts before the date of the scholarship exam of next year, are also entitled to apply for this scholarship. These accounts could be easily opened from any NSB branch or post office.