A total of 82,422 students have got scholarships in the Primary Education Completion (PEC) Examinations held in 2019.
State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossain came up with the information while talking to media at the secretariat on Tuesday.
Among the total scholarship recipients, 33,000 students got scholarship under talent pool while 49,500 under general category.
The list of scholarship recipients will be available on the Primary Education Department website: www.dpe.gov.bd.
Scholarship recipients in the talent pool program will receive Tk 300 per month, while those in the general category will get Tk225 per month, the minister said.
Primary Education Completion (PEC) and Ebtedayee Examinations were held across the country in November, 2019, where 29,03,638 students appeared.