ComBank rewards winners of ‘Arunalu Siththam’

Commercial Bank of Ceylon concluded the fifth edition of its ‘Arunalu Siththam’ children’s art competition with cash rewards upto Rs. 3 million recently.

The Bank’s Managing Director/CEO Sanath Manatunge and members of the corporate management of the Bank attended the event at the Kingsbury Hotel.

Exclusively for children between the ages of four and 16, the competition was hosted under the banner of the Bank’s popular children’s savings account ‘Arunalu’ and was also open to Sri Lankan children living overseas. More than 12,000 drawings were uploaded to www.arunalusiththam.lk as entries in the five age groups specified for the competition and Commercial Bank invited 137 winners and their family members to the awards ceremony.

The three overseas winners participated in the event online and shared their thoughts. Holders of children’s savings accounts at Commercial Bank among the winners of the competition received special gifts in addition to their cash prizes.

The judging of drawings submitted for this year’s competition wasentrusted to an expert panel of judges headed by Professor Susiripala Malimboda.

Commercial Bank launched the ‘Arunalu Siththam Art Competition’ in 2017. The flagship children’s savings account of Commercial Bank, Arunalu, after which the competition was named, offers a higher interest rate for Children’s Savings Accounts and rewards account holders with special cash prizes if they score the first, second or third highest aggregate marks in their schools at the Year 5 Scholarship Examination.

Source:Daily News