April 18,2018:
On Wednesday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj launched the Study in India website, marking the setting in motion of an ambitious scheme to attract the foreign students to study in good Indian higher educational institutions.
Scheme will entail admission of the foreign students from 30 countries with a focus on South Asia, South East Asia, West Asia and Africa to study in 160 quality higher educational institutions of India as per NIRF ranks and NAAC grades.
Higher Education Secretary R. Subrahmanyam stated that,"With a large number of the available seats involving fee waivers, the attempt is to make quality education affordable to foreign students".
He further added that Central Education portal put in place for Study in India was comprehensive. Once students register on it, they can apply for 160 institutions and get seats as per merit. It also has a provision for online counselling and a helpline number.
Goal of the ambitious scheme is to increase the number of foreign students in India to 2 lakh by 2023.
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Source Hindu
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