Bengaluru: After a large swim of 72% by 2020 – a year that sees the extraordinary steps to curb the spread of Covid-19 – the number of foreign students coming in India has seen a 14% increase in 2021.
Most come from the nearest environment.
Data from the External Ministry of Affairs (MEA) showed 23,439 foreigners arrived in India on the student visa between January and December 2021, compared to 20,561 in 2020.
To put it in context, the number was 74,689 in 2016 until 2021 showed more than 3, 3 Lakh Foreigners from more than 160 countries come to India on a student visa.
The highest number of visas was issued in 2019, followed in 2018 (72,268).
Two other years also saw more than 70,000 people get the visa.
Vikram Shroff, an immigration law expert with Nishith Desai Associates, said: “I hope the center to make it easier for restrictions on Covid-19 travel gradually.
Given the importance of education, making students return to Indian universities must be a priority.
While online education has played Important roles, research opportunities and networks are needed for higher education.
India’s focus must be on attracting foreign students by promoting Indian universities and exceeding the level of 2018 and 2019 intake next year.
“Students from Bangladesh (45,250) and Afghanistan (39,111) – Together contributed a quarter of the arrival in the last six years – exceeding a large number by a large margin.
Among the top countries that export students to India during the Malaysian period (20,758), Sudan (15,126), Sri Lanka (14,635), Thailand (13,423), Yemen (11,437), Republic of Korea (9,960), Iran (9,960) and Iraq (7,113).
The 10 countries contributed more than 45% of the overall arrival.
In 2021, 47% of students came from Bangladesh (3,565), Afghanistan (3,431), Sri Lanka (1,599), Tanzania (1,426) and Sudan (1,088).
TV Mohandas Pai, Chair, Aavin’s capital fund, said: “While the increase is welcome, there is a lot to do.
India has 7.5 lakh students who study abroad but only a small number that comes here from abroad.
We must identify 100 top institutions and allow them to market education to ensure we get around 1 lakh or 1.5 lakh foreign students come here.
“Other experts say it will take at least two years to reach the 2019 level.” There is a need for globalization of Indian education, “Pai said.
“We need to provide our top institutional freedom to get global students.
There are around 3-4 million students globally and many of them are Indians, whose parents spend around $ 20 billion every year to educate them.
This is more than the union government budget.
For higher education.
We cannot have global institutions without global students.
Poor policies have spent our resources, reducing our names and very hurting us.
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After big dip, the arrival of foreign students rose 14%
