The Government of Japan has provided a grant aid of USD 865,000 to the Maldives for the continuation of scholarships opportunities to be offered by the Government of Japan for the fiscal year 2023, under the Japanese Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS).
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Khaleel and the Ambassador of Japan to the Maldives Takeuchi Midori signed the Exchange of Notes for the grant, at a ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 13. The grant will provide six more scholarships again this year to the Maldivian students, a project which was implemented in August 2020 by the Government of Japan for further promoting the human resource development in the Maldives.
Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Civil Service Commission, Embassy of Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) attended the ceremony.