30 Bangladeshi officials to receive higher edu in Japan

Japan will provide scholarships to 30 government officials this year for higher education in Japanese universities.

Bangladesh and Japan signed a document on “Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS)” at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) in Dhaka yesterday. ERD Secretary Kazi Shofiqul Azam and Japanese Ambassador Hiroyasu Izumi signed the document.

Since 2002, 328 Bangladeshi officials have studied in Japan under the JDS scheme.

The government of Japan has increased the annual number of Bangladesh JDS awardees significantly during the past few years.

The yearly intake of 15, which stayed constant between 2010 and 2014, has doubled to 30 in 2016, making Bangladesh the second biggest among the 15 JDS participant countries.

This year, 30 JDS fellows will train themselves in different graduate schools in Japan to pursue disciplines such as public administration, economic affairs, legal system and urban planning, public finance and investment policy.