Humaira Azam, Deputy Managing Director of Bank Asia, poses for photograph with the recipients of Bank Asia Higher Studies Scholarship at a ceremony in Chittagong Friday.

Bank Asia awarded scholarships to fifteen insolvent meritorious students for their higher study at Lohagara in Chittagong Friday.

Humaira Azam, Deputy Managing Director of the bank, handed over the scholarships among the students of different institutions at Lohagara upazila, said a press release.

Ziaul Huq Chowdhury Babul, Chairman of Lohagara Upazila, Sahabullah, Senior Vice President and Head of Agrabad Branch, and AKM Saiful Islam Chowdhury, Senior Vice President and Head of Station Road Branch of the bank, students, teachers, journalists, businessmen and local elite attended the function.

A total of 153 students were selected for Bank Asia Higher Study Scholarship for 2012.