Shaheed Janoni's eldest daughter Begum Hasina Joarder, also former headmistress of Gano Bhaban government High School, Dhaka and Jamalpur Government Girls' High School said this during a conversation with this correspondent at her parent's Sabuj Para residence in Nilphamari town recently.

Shaheed Janoni Rizia Ahmed Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to a poor but meritorious school student every year. The detail of the scholarship programme will be announced at a convenient time, Hasina said.

Wife of noted educationist and former headmaster of Nilphamari Government Boys' High School (formerly Nilphamari High English School) and mother of Shaheed freedom fighter Captain RAM Khairul Bashar (popularly known as Captain Bashar), Rizia Ahmed passed away in Dhaka on April 13.

Rizia Ahmed remained as an inspiration to her celebrated husband, Shikhya Guru Asir Uddin Ahmed who dedicated his entire life in kindling the light of education in Nilphamari and its surrounding areas in northern Bangladesh and Jamtara in Santal Pargana, India.

Captain Bashar inherited his 'dogmatic will power' and unusual strength of character from mother Rizia, a worthy daughter of Bashar Mohammad, a celebrated politician who led the independence struggle of British India, also former lawmaker from Rangpur Sadar constituency during British rule in India.