BOC calls for applications from Ran Kekulu Grade 5 scholarship achievers

Bank of Ceylon’s (BOC) ‘Ran Kekulu Scholarships 2019’ calls for applications from Grade 5 scholarship achievers, who have obtained the highest marks in the 2019 Grade 5 scholarship examination.

BOC will be granting 2000 scholarships worth Rs.15,000 each to deserving Ran Kekulu account holding students and 100 scholarships worth Rs.25,000 to deserving Personal Foreign Currency Minor Account (PFCA Minor) holding students.

The application form can be downloaded via the bank’s website: www.boc.lk, Facebook page or obtained from the nearest BOC branch.

Those intending to apply are requested to hand over their applications at any BOC branch on or before November 27, 2019.

BOC Ran Kekulu account holders, who have maintained a minimum account balance of Rs.5000 by October 5, 2019, a day before the 2019 exam results were released, will be considered eligible for the scholarship grant. As for the PFCA Minor account holders, the account balance should be US $ 250 or equivalent in foreign currency by October 6, 2019, to be eligible to receive the scholarship grant.

The children who qualify in both Ran Kekulu and PFCA Minor accounts and have the required pass mark to receive the scholarship at the 2019 examination will receive both scholarship grants.

Apart from the scholarship grant, the bank has arranged a special gift to all BOC Ran Kekulu account holding students, whose account is opened and in operation by October 6, 2019 and has achieved the required district pass mark. This special gift will be made available to students at every BOC branch on a stipulated future date

As part of its CSR initiatives, the bank will make its appreciation of the courage and dedication shown by 25 differently abled students, who have passed the Grade 5 scholarship examination 2019, by offering them a scholarship of Rs.15,000, as a monthly grant of Rs.1000 per month, till the student passes through the O/L examination.

The bank has been providing motivation to students to come up with exemplary results at this examination through programmes such as this scholarship programme and ‘BOC Hapana’ scholarship training programme. BOC has been granting Grade 5 scholarships since 2002.

Its BOC Hapana coaching programme has passed over 1300 coaching sessions and has trained over 700,000 students all over the country. The special parent’s training programmes that are conducted along with this BOC Hapana programme has directed over 400,000 parents on how to support their children in their education not only to pass examinations of this nature but also on how to empower themselves through quality education.

Having series of programmes running in both Sinhala and Tamil languages by a team of experienced panel of school instructors and teachers, it covers around 80 programmes annually to provide this free of charge service to a wider range of students. As a bank with an inherent duty towards the country, BOC has undertaken promoting education in the country as one of its prime corporate social responsibilities.