According to officials in the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), these institutes will be selected by a group of six eminent persons who will, in turn, be selected by the UGC Chairman, the Secretary (Higher Education) and the Cabinet Secretary.
India currently attracts only 0.6 percent of overall international students studying out of their countries, the government, however, plans to change this by reserving 25% seats for international students in 20 world class institutes that it plans to create in coming years.
The 20 institutes which will be called “Institutions of National Eminence” -- 10 in private and 10 in public sector will be selected from the existing institutions only. They could be IITs, IIMs, IISc, central universities like JNU and private institutions or any other institute that is performing well. These institutions will be developed as the best institutes of India hence government wants to attract more students to these institutions.
According to officials in the ministry of human resource development, these institutes will be selected by a group of six eminent persons which will be selected by UGC Chairman, Secretary Higher Education and Cabinet Secretary. The public institutes will get a funding of Rs. 1000 crore each in a period of five years for their development and private institutions will get freedom from the regulator.
“We are aware of the fact that India does not get a large number of foreign students currently, but we want to change this scenario. Therefore we plan to reserve 25% of seats superannuary for international students, in the 20 world class institutions that we plan to develop in the coming years,” said a senior official in the ministry.
According to a report by the Association of Indian Universities, a body under the ministry of HRD, only 30,423 students enrolled in various universities across India, which constitutes only 0.6 percent of the overall International students.
“Going by the policy framework that enables universities and colleges to admit foreign/NRI students to up to 15% of their sanctioned intake, India should have been having about 4.85 million foreign/NRI students studying in the country's campuses,” the report said.
However, the numbers are abysmally low at only in thousands.
The international students studying in India during the academic year 2014-15 came from as many as 208 countries from across all continents, though a predominant proportion accounting for nearly 60% were found to be from Asia followed by Africa which accounted for about 20% of the total international students in India.
Americans, Europeans and the persons of Indian origin and the non-resident Indian account for only 20% of the international students studying in India, the report mentioned.
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