Under NEP 2020, International Universities will be called to India for Knowledge Exchange: Union Education Minister
Those who had studied in India were leading some of the big corporations in the world. Under the new education policy, some 100 top international universities will also be invited to India for knowledge exchange, the Union Education Minister said.
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said that the new National Education Policy 2020 will help arrest brain drain and will give a boost to research in Higher Education institutes. He was addressing the 8th convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore. He attended the event through video conferencing. “Between 7.5 lakh to 8 lakh Indian students are studying abroad and this drains out Rs 1.5 lakh crore from here to foreign countries. We are going to strengthen parameters under our ‘stay in India’ campaign for which research will be put on the fast-track under the new education policy,” he said.
He said those who had studied in India were leading some of the big corporations in the world. Under the new education policy, some 100 top international universities will also be invited to India for “knowledge exchange”, the minister said.
He said the Centre wants to make higher education institutions an international brand under its ‘study in India’ campaign. He said 50,000 foreign students had registered for admission in institutes in the country but the move has been stalled currently due to the coronavirus outbreak.
IIT Indore is an Institute of National Importance, established by the Government of India in 2009. It is an autonomous statutory organisation functioning within the Institute of Technology Act. Initially, the Institute started functioning in a temporary campus at the Institute of Engineering and Technology of Devi Ahilyabai University under the mentorship of IIT Bombay. In 2016, IIT Indore moved to its permanent campus of 501 acre situated at Simrol, Indore.
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