The government on Sunday signed an 'Exchange of Note' with Japan for Tk 18 crore grant aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship Programme for next year.
Economic Relations Division secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan and Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh Tamotsu Shinotsuka signed the exchange of notes on behalf of their respective governments, said a release.
Under the agreement, 15 JDS 10th batch fellows will be dispatched from Bangladesh to Japan in August, 2011.
In addition, the new recruitment and selection for JDS 11th batch fellows will also start from August, 2011.
JDS programme was established by the government of Japan in 2001. The objective of this programme is to support the respective government in its efforts to facilitate its own plans for human resource development mainly for capacity building and institutional building, and thereby extend and enhance the bilateral relationship with Japan.
In the last ten years, 183 JDS fellows were sent from Bangladesh to Japan, and 147 JDS fellows have returned to Bangladesh?after the completion of their master degrees and contributed to the development of Bangladesh.
Source : New Age
