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Indian government to tap students from US, UK via ‘Indian’ courses

Plans to offer niche courses, namely yoga, that are available only in India

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After getting students from SAARC countries, the Indian government wants students from developed nations such as the US and UK to come to India to study subjects like Yoga, ancient languages and similar courses that are available only in India.  

The Association of Indian Universities (AIU), a body of HRD Ministry, which has a large number of universities under it has conveyed to all universities to tell students about these special courses that they offer so that more international students can come to India. 

The Indian government is looking at tapping education as a potential ‘export’ source for earning revenue by inviting more foreign students to the country. The Ministry of Commerce has been showing keen interest in exporting education, for which they have asked the concerned departments to chalk out a strategy to get more foreign students. 

Ministry of Human Resource Development’s ‘Study in India’ programme, through which the government wants to take the number of foreign students coming to India to around 2 lakh by the year 2020, is also a part of the plan.

However, under this plan, only students from SAARC countries are the target. Apart from students from SAARC countries, Commerce Ministry wants students from developed nations like USA and European countries also to come to India for studies. 

“The government is looking at tapping foreign students in two different ways — one is getting more students from SAARC countries who can do regular degree level courses, another is students from developed nations who can come to India to do short-term courses on subjects that are only available in India — like Yoga, ancient Indian languages and Indian culture,” said a senior official. 

AIU has told all universities that are under it to tell students about such kind of programmes, which can attract more foreign students. “For example, a large number of students from China have recently started coming to Delhi University to do courses in Hindi and Sanskrit. These are the kind of students we want to target,” the official added. 

This trend of increase in students from developed nations coming to India emerged in AIU’s latest report, which studied the number of international students coming to India. 

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  • Govt is looking at tapping education as a potential ‘export’ source for earning revenue. 
  • According to The Association of Indian Universities’ latest report, India gets only 0.6% of international students going out of their countries 
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