External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday launched the Study in India website, marking the setting in motion of an ambitious scheme to attract foreign students to study in good Indian higher educational institutions.
The scheme will entail the admission of 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.
With a large number of the available seats involving fee waivers, the attempt is to make quality education affordable to foreign students, said Higher Education Secretary R. Subrahmanyam.
The central education portal put in place for Study in India was comprehensive, he said. 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.
The goal of the ambitious scheme is to increase the number of foreign students in India to 2 lakh by 2023.
