The country’s premier engineering colleges – the IITs – could from December onwards have hundreds of students and researchers from Asean countries on their ranks as the Union HRD ministry is looking east to fulfil its twin objectives of getting more international students and boosting research.
The ministry has on Thursday readied a plan under which 1,000 students from Asean countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam etc would be given fellowships to undertake research in the Indian Institutes of Technology.
“The proposal is to offer 1,000 doctoral fellowships to students from Asean countries. The scheme is budgeted at ~300 crore and will be a part of the IIT system. It has been decided that the IIT at Delhi will be the nodal agency for the Asean fellowships scheme. The first students would be admitted from December this year onwards,” a senior official said.
The IITs will, from their own resources, provide living expenses to these scholars, the committee led by Higher Education secretary R Subrahmanyam, that worked on the contours of the plan, has held.
Read more of this in a report by Amandeep Shukla published in Hindustan Times... (Link given below)
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