Centre forms panel under UGC chief to draw up plans for 'Stay in India and Study in India'

Centre will set up a committee, under UGC (Univesity Grants Chairman) Chairman, to prepare guidelines and measures to ensure that more and more students stay for study in India, and come out with a mechanism for increasing intake in well-performing universities. Committee will submit a report to Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry in a fortnight's time.

Mechanisms will also be explored for starting multi-disciplinary and invative programs, twinning and joint degree programs, Cross Country designing of centers, facilitating online lectures by eminent faculty abroad, link between academia and industry, facilitate joint degree ventures, and lateral entry to Indian Higher Education Institutions. 

Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will oversee issues related to Technical institutions while heads of National Testing ncy (NTA) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) may also be called for inputs looking at ir experience in education sector. Separate sub-committees consisting of Directors of IIT, NIT, IIIT, CoA, and Vice Chancellors of Central Universities will be created who will assist UGC and AICTE chiefs.

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Stay in India and Study in India

se decisions were taken in a brainstorming session on “Stay in India and Study in India” initiative chaired by Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal along with senior officials and Heads of Automous/Technical Organisations in New Delhi on Friday.

Pokhriyal said that because of COVID-19 situation many students who wanted to pursue studies abroad have decided to stay back in India and pursue ir studies within India. He said that re are also a rising number of Indian students returning to India with concern about completion of ir studies. He emphasized that HRD Ministry should make all efforts to look into needs of both se categories of students.

Minister also said that in 2019, around 7 lakh 50 thousand students travelled abroad to pursue ir studies and because of this valuable foreign exchange as well as many bright students moved out of India. He stressed on making all efforts to help bright students to pursue ir education in India.

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