Govt has set an ambitious target of 5 Lakh international students by 2024: MoS for Education

Chandigarh, July 5: India aims to increase the number of international students studying in its Universities from 50,000 currently to 5 lakh by the year 2024, said Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Union Minister of State for External Affairs, and Education.

Dr Singh was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of Chandigarh University’s International Faculty Development Programme (IFDP) 2022 at Varsity’s Gharuan campus.

Singh said that with the implementation of NEP 2020, the Indian Education System is witnessing one of world’s biggest reforms in the field of Education and is focused on Making India a Vishwa Guru once again in the Global World, primarily by the Internationalization of Indian Education.

“The vision of the Prime Minister has already started showing great results as India has increased its share of international students from 2.3% to 6% in the Global Student Mobility Market. More than 50,000 students from 164 countries are currently studying in Indian Universities in various programmes and we aim to make that rise to 5 lakh by the year 2024,” he said.

Singh called for empowering the faculty to conduct innovative teaching, research, and service as they have been given autonomy to innovate on matters of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment within a broad framework of higher education qualifications while ensuring consistency across institutions, programmes and modes in the NEP-2020.