DHAKA: Students of Habiganj BIAM Laboratory School were suffering from lack of classrooms. Chevron Bangladesh, the largest producer of natural gas in the country, extended support in solving the problem.

The country’s largest foreign investor constructed a new building for the school. Four classrooms of the building will now be used for 350 students from class I to V and a common room for teachers.

Habiganj deputy commissioner (DC), also school managing committee president M Jainal Abedin inaugurated the building in a simple ceremony on Tuesday.

Expressing his gratitude to the company, the DC said that the new classrooms will play a role in ensuring quality education to the students as well as enabling to face the challenges of the new millennium.

BIAM Foundation director general Mohammad Fazlul Hoque also thanked Chevron for their initiatives and said it would play a role in building the nation through coordinated and quality education.

Chevron’s Health, Environment & Safety Supervisor (HES) Matt Kelly, Field Community Engagement Manager Malay Kumar Sarker and coordinator Mahmudul Hasan, among others, were present at the inaugural ceremony.

However, Chevron Bangladesh has been running Quality Education Support Program (QESP) since 2006.

Besides the distribution of annual scholarships to over 1,600 underprivileged but meritorious students, the QESP also includes infrastructure support, funding for the appointments of additional teachers and trainings for them, establishing computer laboratories and providing uniforms and sports equipment to the students.

BDST: 2046 HRS, MAY 26, 2015
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