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Indian gov’t to provide 15,000 scholarships for African students

The government of India will offer 15,000 scholarships to African students over the next five years to pursue online courses from the country’s universities as part of a pan-African e-network project on education and medicine.

The project aims to give African students education and medical expertise opportunities in India. Photo: pixabay/ ludi

Over the past four years, India has established training centres across 14 African countries mainly ICT

According to India’s secretary for Economic Relations in the ministry of External Affairs, T S Tirumurti, the programs will be delivered as the second phase of a tele-education initiative called the e-VidhyaBharati and e-ArogyaBharati Network Project (e-VBAB) later this year.

The project will include short term courses, undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs that will run on web-based portals connecting educational institutions and hospitals in India with participating universities and hospitals in all 54 African countries.

“We truly welcome students from Africa to come and study in India”

The aim, the official explained, is to open the door to education and medical expertise from India to African students, doctors, nurses and paramedical staff.

“The ministry is spearheading the second phase of the tele-education and tele-medicine project titled e-VBAB… which will offer 15,000 scholarships to African students over the next five years… from top Indian universities,” Tirumurti told the recent India-Africa Higher Education and Skills Development summit in Delhi.

“The e-VBAB portal will be opened soon to all African nationals and will include partner universities and hospitals,” the official added.

The initiative is being implemented with the support of India’s ministry of Human Resources Development and will target students who do not want to or cannot undertake training in India, Tirimurti noted.

India has eased the visa requirements for African nationals to attract more students from the continent, he told the event hosted by Confederation of Indian Industry and attended by representatives of countries including Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria, DR Congo, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mauritius, and Rwanda.

“We truly welcome students from Africa to come and study in India. It can be seen in our liberal visa regime for African students… most African countries are eligible for e-visas,” Tirimurti continued.

“And those students who don’t want to take the flight to come to India can now get an Indian degree from the comfort of his or her home as in the case of tele-education courses of e-VBAB.”

Over the past four years, India has established training centres across 14 African countries mainly ICT, vocational training and entrepreneurship, he observed.

“Students… can now get an Indian degree from the comfort of his or her home”

The country’s Study in India program will be expanded to cover some 30 African countries, allowing learners from the countries to benefit from less stringent visa restrictions, according to R Subrahmanyam, secretary for India’s ministry of Human Resource Development.

According to reports, over 4,500 African have already applied under Study in India, which has been particularly successful in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.

India, Subrahmanyam said, would create positions in some of its best institutions of higher learning for the benefit of international students, and a third of the places would be offered concessional fees, allowing foreign and diaspora students to access different forms of scholarships.

According to Buti Kgwaridi Manamela, South Africa’s deputy minister for Higher Education in South Africa,  the country and India are engaged in negotiations aimed at establishing a Mutual Recognition Agreement in a big to help South African countries with a sizeable Indian population easily enrol in Indian universities.

South Africa, he disclosed, is also in the process of developing a policy for internationalising its education system a process that could benefit from the input of India.

“We need to empower our youth. It cannot be done without education”

The Confederation of Indian Industry estimates that there are about 25,000 African students enrolled in over 500 Indian institutions, attracted by affordable fees.

Tirumurti added that India and Africa are emerging with high growth and higher optimism for the future.

“We need to empower our youth. It cannot be done without education,” he said.

“If we make sure that [the] current youth of India and Africa become the best-educated generation, there is no limit to what they can achieve and there’s no limit to what we can achieve.”

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20 Responses to Indian gov’t to provide 15,000 scholarships for African students

  1. Am gland with the government of India has done ,and am very willing to get my degree there.I will be happy if am going to be one of the shortlisted.

  2. To the government of India
    I am from Ethiopia.I read your voluntary chance to give scholarship for student in Africa. I want to attend my 3rd degree in any pedagogy science.
    because I have MA in school leadership.
    Thank you.

  3. Education and employment generation is two big issue infront of Indian government. But as per the article.. India’s helping hand in Africa region is both helpful to eachother.

  4. I want precise information for applicants in architecture and construction field at undergraduate level. Thanks.

  5. Am a curious about conditions for girls in sciences and applied sciences. I want to apply for undergraduate program. Am from Rwanda.
    us

  6. I am the Pro Chancellor of a private Deemed to be University in Karnataka wishing to know if we can also participate in this venture. WE have a Medical College , Nursing College where we can trainAfrican Students. Please let me know how to go forward.

  7. I am an African, Zambian to be specific intending to train in guidance and counseling in order to help parents with disabled children as well as the disabled live a happy and healthy life. when can i apply and how do i proceed. your response will be highly appreciated.

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