Bandhan Konnagar, the development work implementing wing of Bandhan Bank organized the convocation ceremony for the first batch passing out the PG Diploma Course in Banking and Finance affiliated with MAKAUT. 60 students between 21 and 27 years of age have been awarded the Post-Graduation Diploma and all of them have already been placed in Bandhan Bank head office and several of its branches across the country.

The convocation took place in the Bandhan School of Development Management, Kolkata, and Prof. Saikat Maitra, Vice Chancellor-Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal handed over the certificates to the students. Other prominent personalities like Dr. Partha Pratim Lahiri (Registrar – MAKAUT), Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay (VC – Sister Nivedita University), Ms. Ambalika Das (President – Bandhan Konnagar), and Mr. C S Ghosh, MD & CEO, Bandhan Bank also graced the occasion.

The current batch was inaugurated by Dr. Amit Mitra, Hon’ble Minister of Finance, Statistics, Planning and Programme Monitoring, Govt. of West Bengal.

Bandhan has its residential learning center at Rajpur near Sonarpur, which facilitates 210 residential students. Another new learning center is coming up at Shantiniketan. This will be up and running soon and accommodate 240 students.

Priyanka Dutta