Ceylinco Life presents 162 more ‘Pranama’ scholarships at virtual ceremony

Senior Professor Sujeewa Amarasena, Vice Chancellor – University of Ruhuna (top left), Ceylinco Life Managing Director and CEO Thushara Ranasinghe (top centre) and the two young comperes at the virtual edition of the Ceylinco Life ‘Pranama’ scholarships ceremony

Ceylinco Life recently celebrated the 20th edition of its ‘Pranama’ scholarships programme with its first ever virtual ceremony to felicitate and reward 162 students who excelled in academic and extracurricular activities with Rs 11.8 million in scholarships. 

The certificates, medals, and gifts that usually accompany the scholarships will be physically presented to scholarship recipients individually at branch-level in the first week of August, the life insurance leader said. 

The scholarship ceremony videocast via zoom to beneficiaries and Ceylinco Life staff countrywidecommenced with a welcome address by Ceylinco Life Managing Director and CEO Thushara Ranasinghe, and was followed by the keynote address of the Chief Guest, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ruhuna, Senior Professor Sujeewa Amarasena.

Additionally, a past Pranama scholarship winner who is now a research engineer Charana Suneth Sonnadara and current scholarship winners and district level first place winners at the GCE Advanced Level J.M. Tharinda Rashmi Bandara Navarathne, Konesamoorthy Akshika and Umesha Amodama Tilakarathna also addressed the audience as part of the ceremony.