Tuesday, January 9, 2007: While addressing at 5th
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at the Vigyan Bhavan, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh announced the Government’s plan
to set up a university exclusively for Persons of Indian Origin
(PIO). Encompassing all the sought after courses, the curriculum
of the university would be fine tuned to meet the requirements
of employment abroad.
Indian government has been envisaging the proposed university
as oriented to fulfill the demanding requirements of our NRI
friends in the most preferred streams including engineering and
management.
Aspiring to meet world standards, this university would cater to
all overseas Indians who wish to have their children get the best
education back home, but find admission to regular universities
a real difficult task. As per the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs,
the strength of Indian
diaspora is around 25 million spread over 130 countries.
