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New University Planned for People of Indian Origin
By
Shailaja Neelakantan/NEW DELHI
Issue
cover-dated May 24, 2008
India’s first university for persons
of Indian origin living overseas, that is expected to begin
next year in the southern city of Bangalore, will be set up
by a private higher education trust selected by the Indian government,
a newspaper reports. The Indian government would not bear any
of the costs of setting up the university, which was first announced
by the country’s Prime Minister in 2005.
The Indian government estimates there
are 20 million persons of Indian origin across the world whose
combined wealth of $1-trillion is almost 20 percent higher than
India’s gross domestic product.
The university, which has yet to be
named, will be established by Bangalore’s Manipal Academy of
Higher Education Trust, which already runs several quality private
higher education institutions in the country. Although it will
be a private venture, the university will follow government
guidelines on quotas for Indian students and student enrollment
will be evenly distributed between Indian nationals and children
of persons of Indian origin, the newspaper quoted Vayalar Ravi,
minister for overseas Indian affairs, as saying. “We do not
want anybody to raise any controversy about this, so we advised
them to apply all such rules,” Mr. Ravi told reporters.
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