HRD Ministry has formed a committee, under UGC Chairman, to prepare guidelines & measures to ensure that more & more students stay for study in India, and come out with mechanism for increasing intake in well-performing universities, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' announced on Friday. The committee will submit report within a fortnight.
Mechanisms will be explored for starting multi-disciplinary and innovative programs, facilitating online lectures by eminent faculty abroad, the linkage between academia and industry, facilitate joint degree ventures and lateral entry to higher education institutes in India.
"Due to the current COVID-19 situation, many students who wanted to pursue studies abroad have decided to stay back and pursue the studies in India.
There are also rising number of Indian students returning to India with concern about completion of their studies," Nishank said at a session on "Stay in India and Study in India".
"We should make all efforts to look into the needs of both these categories of students. Initiatives needed to be taken to retain them by providing appropriate opportunities of education in premier institutions in India as well as concerns of students returning from abroad need to be addressed by supporting them to complete their programme here in India," he added.
"We should make all efforts to help bright students to pursue their education in India. Also, as per this government's manifesto we have to increase seat capacity by 50 per cent in all premier institutions by year 2024 and also Institutes of Eminence should be increased to 50 by 2024," he added.