About :

• The Study in India programme, a flagship project under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, was launched in 2018. 
• This program has been put together to facilitate and encourage the global student community to study in India, which offers a plethora of courses with its top-ranked institutes.
• The programme focuses on attracting International students from select 30 plus countries across South-East Asia, Middle East and Africa.
• The programme envisages participation of select reputed Indian institutes/universities by way of offering seats for the International students at affordable rates, along with fee waivers to meritorious foreign students ranging from 100% to 25%.

Objectives:

• To make India a preferred education destination/hub for foreign students;
• To improve the soft power of India with focus on the neighbouring countries
• Use it as a tool in diplomacy;
• To rapidly increase the inflow of inbound International Students in India through systematic brand-building,
• Marketing, social media and digital marketing campaigns;
• To increase India’s market share of global education exports;
• Improvement in overall quality of higher education;
• To reduce the export-import imbalance in the number of international students;
• Growth in India’s global market share of International students;
• Increase in global ranking of India etc.

Why in News?

The Ministry of Human Resource Development conducted the first ever Indian Scholastic Assessment (Ind-SAT) Test 2020 under its ‘Study in India’ programme.

Reference:

1. https://www.studyinindia.gov.in/faqs