A total of 82,383 students have got scholarships in the primary scholarship examinations held in 2022.
State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossen Tuesday announced the result of scholarship examinations at a press briefing.
Among the total scholarship recipients, 33,000 students got scholarships under talent pool while 49,383 were under general category.
The list of scholarship recipients is available on the directorate of primary education website www.dpe.gov.bd and the ministry's website www.mopme.gov.bd.
A total of 4,83,759 examinees appeared in scholarship examinations.
Primary terminal examinations were not held in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Earlier, after 13 years, the primary scholarship examinations were held on December 30, 2022 across the country.
As per a ministry decision, 20 per cent students of Class V from all schools were allowed to sit for the examinations.
Since 2009, the government introduced Primary Education Completion Examinations (PECE) for the students of Class V and based on that result students were given scholarships.
Before that the students had to sit for the primary scholarship examinations for getting the scholarships.
Following the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the PECE were not being held since 2020.
As per the new national curriculum introduced in 2023, the system of holding the PECE has been abolished.
