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New Delhi : The students across the world will now be able to pursue the education in prominent Indian Educational Institutions. In another groundbreaking initiative of HRD Ministry, Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for HRD Dr Satya Pal Singh jointly launched the Study in India programme of HRD Ministry by launching the ‘Study in India’ portal (www.studyinindia.gov.in) at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on April 18, 2018.
The integration of e-SANAD portal and NAD – National Academic Depository (of HRD Ministry) was also launched by Sushma Swaraj on the occasion.
In her address on the occasion, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the quest for knowledge has always been fundamental to India’s culture and civilization. Throughout our history, India has made seminal contributions to human thought, philosophy and development, she said.
“Our ancient philosophical concepts, such as ‘Vasudeva Kuttumbakam’ and ‘Sarva Dharma Sambhava’ remain eternal. The “Study in India’ is an innovative initiative to attract students from our partner countries in South Asia, South-East Asia, Middle East and Africa to come and experience the very best of academic learning from the top institutions in India. This will be achieved through systematic brand-building, identifying quality institutions for receiving the students, creating suitable infrastructure and facilitation structures. The “Study in India Portal” will become a single window to cover all aspects relating to studying in India for foreign students,” said the External Affairs Minister.
In a video message on this occasion, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said ‘Study in India’ initiative will open the gates of prominent educational institution of India to foreign students. He said that to begin with the focus is on students of 30 Asian, African, Middle East and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries and hoped that families from America will send their children to India for under graduate courses one day. India was the education hub of the world education with long heritage of Nalanda & Takshashila, he aid adding now India is again surging ahead in education sector with more than 40,000 colleges & more than 800 universities. Top most colleges have been granted graded autonomy. Graded autonomy will help educational institutions to expand on their own, Javadekar said, according to a PIB release.