President Maithripala Sirisena has directed relevant educational authorities to offer scholarship to 2019 A/L students , who face economic hard ships. Hence, applications for the scholarship have already been called from students , who are under poverty line.
Ministry of education has decided to offer 100 scholarship per educational zone and pay them monthly Rs 500 for 24 months .
This project has been implementing by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Bank of Ceylon.