The MHRD’s move to ‘Study in India’ is focused on helping students who have returned to India because of the pandemic and the students who have now decided to stay back to pursue higher education in India.
Human Resource Development ministry’s (MHRD) initiative ‘Study in India’ is focused on helping Indian as well as foreign students to stay back in India and choose Indian universities and institutions for higher education.
Every year a lot of students move out of the country to study abroad. The minister said that last year around 7.5 lakh students traveled abroad to pursue their studies. But due to the COVID-19 outbreak, such students who were wishful about studying abroad are now forced to change their plans.
At a session on “Stay in India and Study in India” MHRD Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said “Due to the current COVID-19 situation, many students who wanted to pursue studies abroad have decided to stay back and pursue the studies in India. There is also a rising number of Indian students returning to India with concern about the completion of their studies”.
The MHRD’s move to ‘Study in India’ is focused on helping students who have returned to India because of the pandemic and the students who have now decided to stay back to pursue higher education in India.
He added, “We should make all efforts to look into the needs of both these categories of students. Initiatives need to be taken to retain them by providing appropriate opportunities of education in premier institutions in India as well as concerns of students returning from abroad need to be addressed by supporting them to complete their programme here in India”.
“Study in India” And “Stay in India”
The HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has set up a committee that will prepare the guidelines and measures to strengthen both ‘Study in India’ and ‘Stay in India’. The committee is being headed by DP Singh who is the chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
The authorized committed will prepare guidelines to provide opportunities for Indian as well as foreign students to continue their education in Indian Institutions and Universities. The committee will also work on the mechanisms for increasing the intake of foreign students in well-performing universities. Other sub-committees will also be formed to work on it. The sub-committee will consist of directors from IITs, NITs, IIITs, Council of Architecture (CoA), and vice-chancellors of central universities.
The prime concern under the ‘Study in India’ scheme is to increase the number of foreign students choosing Indian universities and institutions for higher education. For achieving this several Institutional reforms will be needed.
Further, institutes might have to start a multidisciplinary innovative programmes, twinning and joint degrees and offices or centers dedicated to international students across the country for a smooth experience of foreign students.
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