The fourteenth Inter-School Bangla Olympiad was inaugurated on Saturday with huge participation from English medium and English version schools.

This year's olympiad was organised with the participation of more than one and a half thousand students from 80 schools across the country at the premises of International Hope School (IHSB) in Dhaka’s Uttara.

In the day-long programme, the contestants participated in various age-based categories in essay writing, recitation, dance, singing, drawing, quizzes and public speaking.

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IHSB Principal Roksana Zarin and Chairman Timothy Donald Fisher spoke at the inaugural ceremony while Adviser to the Ministries of Industries, Housing and Public Works Adilur Rahman Khan will be present as the chief guest at the award distribution ceremony.

Dr. Mohammad Azam, Director General of Bangla Academy, eminent writer and educationist, will be present as the special guest.

Chairman Timothy Donald Fisher said, “Our Bangla Olympiad is about Bengali language, culture and history. We want to showcase the culture of this country to the world.”

Principal Roksana Zarin said, “Bangla Olympiad has become a national competition. Not only national, I would say, Bangla Olympiad is spreading to the international arena as well. Every year, along with local students, foreign students from different schools are also participating in the Bangla Olympiad.”

This year too, as in previous years, the country's eminent educationists, writers and artists served as advisers and judges for the competition.

The judges included eminent musicians Sujit Mostafa, Shahin Samad, Priyanka Gope, Tanvir Alam Sajeeb, Azizur Rahman Tuhin, dancers Zuairia Mouli, Shanta Shahrin, painter Professor Md. Alptagin.